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[Update: After this story was published, PBS preempted the episode of American Experience covering the Hatfield-McCoy feud. It is now scheduled to be broadcast on Connecticut Public Television on Sunday, Sept.

15 at 7 p.m. The story has been changed to reflect this]

When she wrote her third book, “Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900,” historian Altina Waller thought the true story of the impact of modernization and industrialization on two families along the border of Kentucky and West Virginia would make a good film.

While movies, television, musicians, and authors have long used family feuds as storylines for entertainment, the real backstory of the most famous family conflict in American history now will be told in a documentary film on Sunday, Sept.

15, with Waller, an emeritus professor and former head of the Department of History, as one of the historians providing commentary in a new episode of the PBS documentary series Americ