Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Documentary Filmmaker

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner's daughter exploring the region's dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty.

King Coal

A feature-length documentary, The Elders uses stylized interview portraits of elderly individuals to tell a universal story about life's most important lessons.

The Elders

Forager

At the crossroads of the 2016 presidential race and the fight for civil rights, economic fairness, and a democracy that works for everyone.

Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution

Sesame Street in Communities

Filmed over the course of two years, Country Brawlers is a raw and intimate look into an eclectic cast of characters that make up rural boxing in Central Appalachia - a region struggling with poverty, addiction, and hopelessness - and how the sport of boxing can be a vehicle for change, purpose, and redemption.

Country Brawlers

Six longtime couples in different parts of the world share their decades-long love in these tender portraits filmed over the course of one year.

My Love: Six Stories of True Love

In this unique portrait of motherhood, women who give birth while incarcerated at one of America's most notorious prisons struggle to stay connected with their children on the outside. The mothers turn to a group of doulas for support through pregnancy, labor and separation from their newborns; and they help each other cope with loss and guilt.

Tutwiler

Mountains + Movies is about the West Virginia Filmmakers Festival, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019. The film brings to light the challenges filmmakers face in a state where stories abound but obstacles are plentiful.

Mountains + Movies

In the heart of America's opioid epidemic, four men attempt to reinvent their lives and reenter society sober after years of drug abuse.

Recovery Boys

Documentary about three teenage boys as they approach adulthood in California, West Virginia, and Florida. The hopes and dreams of young people in small town America as expressed by the three subjects over a period of eight years.

Phantom Cowboys

The 90th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, celebrates the film industry's biggest achievements for the year 2017.

The Oscars

On the morning of Election Day 2016, Americans of all stripes woke up and went about living their lives. These were the hours leading up to Donald Trump's unexpected, earth-shaking victory, but, of course, no one knew that yet.

11/8/16

Timberline

Betting on Trump: Coal

This short film celebrates the life and work of Seamus Heaney, the most famous contemporary poet in Ireland.

For Seamus

Hollow is a web-based documentary and participatory project that examines the future of rural America through the residents of West Virginia's McDowell County.

Hollow: An Interactive Documentary

A comedy news show featuring humorous takes on top stories.

The Daily Show

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983

Frontline

Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.