Long Journey Home

About Long Journey Home

Long Journey Home explores the ethnic diversity of the Appalachian region, the economic forces causing people to migrate into and out of the area, and the choices individuals make to stay, to leave, and to come back. European immigrants recall the ethnic variety that existed in Appalachia during the first coal boom of the 1910s and ’20s, while African-Americans whose families left sharecropping in…

Elizabeth Barret's Long Journey Home is a 1987 film.

Released in January 1987, it runs 58 minutes.