Desc: Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & the Fight for Coalfield Justice: Directed by Catherine Pancake. With Lauren Graham. The documentary chronicles the escalating drama in the Appalachian Mountains caused by the alarming expansion of large surface coal mines. These operations have covered 2,000 km of mountain streams with mining waste, destroyed thousands of hectares of deciduous forests, and flattened hundreds of Appalachian mountain peaks.