This is Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

From streetlights to solar flights, from coal miners to corn farmers, we're looking at recent documentary films that bring human drama to the climate story.

People from the mountains and stuff like that, like where I'm from, really had no one to have her back before. Sixteen years I've been dreaming of that.

Thought to flight around the world with no fuel.

Everybody wants to find the perfect place to be.

And there's all these national parks and all these places that people love and like the ocean and stuff.

And I'm like, after a place gets kind of tore up like this, who's loving it? Who's out there loving these broken places?

With insights from the filmmakers.

Our film is really about neighbor versus neighbor.

We never wanted to make a David versus Goliath kind of story.

Summer documentaries. Up next on Climate One.

I'm Devin Strolovich. Climate change is sometimes called the anti-story because the end is uncertain and far in the future.

But several recent documentaries tell climate-related stories with real human drama. On today's show, host Greg Dalton talks to directors and producers of four of these films,

beginning in coal country.

You cannot understand the complex people by only looking at the way they've been portrayed on television and movie screens.

One must go to the mountains to drive these winding roads.

The documentary Hillbilly, directed by Ashley York and Sally Rubin,

is a personal and political journey into the heart of Appalachia,

exploring media representations of rural people

while showcasing the diversity of communities throughout the region.

The film includes Ashley's visit to her Kentucky hometown to interview family members on Election Day 2016.

Greg Dalton spoke to Hillbilly co-director Sally Rubin and began with this basic question.

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