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Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company -owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards .
Sep 28, 1977 · Harlan County U.S.A.: Directed by Barbara Kopple. With John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson. A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Aug 14, 2019 · The Brookside strike is vividly recounted in Barbara Kopple’s masterpiece, the documentary “Harlan County, USA.” NONUNION AND DEADLY Today, U.S. coal comes mostly from the Western plains, dug out by huge earth-moving machinery and carried to the coasts on mile-long, dust-spewing trains.
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] . Its county seat is Harlan. [2] . It is classified as a moist county —one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county ), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs.
Watch Harlan County, U.S.A. with a subscription on Max. In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky....
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Nov 21, 2023 · Hal and Craig watched Barbara Kopple's HARLAN COUNTY, USA, the ground-breaking 1976 documentary chronicling the struggles of coal mine workers in Harlan County, Kentucky as they fight...
Feb 16, 2006 · The film retains all of its power, in the story of a miners' strike in Kentucky where the company employed armed goons to escort scabs into the mines, and the most effective picketers were the miners' wives -- articulate, indominable, courageous.
Review and analysis of Harlan County U.S.A., a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary by Barbara Kopple about Brookside coal miners' attempt to unionize with the United Mine Workers
Feb 11, 2016 · Harlan County, USA is a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned...
