Grounded in the dramatic personal stories of five generation mining families, and narrated by Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, Butte, America tells the tale of Butte, Montana, once the world's largest producer of copper -- the "Richest Hill on Earth," the town that "plumbed and electrified America," the Pittsburgh of the West.
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In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape - rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century. Land Of Destiny is a tender portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a devastating investigation into when and for what people fight.
