Pittsburgh filmmaker Peter Argentine and WVU broadcast professor Gina Martino Dahlia have produced two different documentaries about the worst coal mine disaster in American history in Monongah, Marion County, WV. They will be shown back-to-back on WVPBS on Thursday, December 6 from 10 PM - 11 PM.

Argentine’s film will be shown at 10 PM- “The Darkest Month: December 1907″ and expanded to 55 minutes for national broadcast. Dahlia’s film, “The Monongah Heroine” will air from 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM. She is the acting director of broadcast journalism at the WVU School of Journalism and presently lives in Fairmont with her family. The Charleston Gazette published a story today about the “Monongah Heroine,” which deals with the widows and ophans who suffered as well as the miners - over 1,000.

Davit McAteer, another Fairmont native, has a new book, “Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in U.S. History.”  He  made a film, “Monongah 1907″ in the early 1980s about the Disaster which he recently sold on DVD at the annual WV Library Assn. conference in Morgantown.

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