How Green Was My Valley
“Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!”
Drama
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
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A deeply felt, sweeping saga of a Welsh mining family's joys and sorrows. It's a poignant, nostalgic look back at a lost way of life, filled with warmth, hardship, and enduring love.
nostalgicmelancholicsentimentalbittersweetslow-burnclassic Hollywood dramaperiod pieceblack and whitefamilylosssocial changenostalgia
walesbased on novel or bookfamily relationshipsrural areablack and whitegossipmining towncoal miningcoal minecorporal punishmentcoal minerwistful
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