Description: Beneath Black Skies, the documentary about the Illawarra's coal mining history, including Australia's largest industrial disaster, Mount Kembla Disaster, narrated by David Field with a striking musical score and dramatic reenactments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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On the 25th August, Why Documentaries launched Beneath Black Skies to a capacity crowd at the IPAC theatre. The documentary Beneath Black Skies held the audience's attention for the entire time...you could hear gasps in the audience when scenes from the disasters came up... Len Leffley, one of the few remaining pick and shovel coal miners on the south coast then had the audience laughing with his stories, and jokes about nicknames "then there was snake, he was always ready to strike!" ...women banging their