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    Harlan County, U.S.A.

    PG1977 · Documentary · 1h 43m

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  1. United States. Language. English. 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.

  2. 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.

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    • Documentary
    • Barbara Kopple
    • 1977-09-28
  3. 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.

  4. 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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    • Barbara Kopple
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  5. 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.

  6. Feb 16, 2006 · Reviews. Harlan Country, U.S.A. Roger Ebert February 16, 2006. Tweet. Nowhere has the plight of the American mineworker been so powerfully chronicled as in "Harlan County, U.S.A." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch.

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  8. Credits. 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.

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