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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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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 .
July 30, 1946 (age 78) New York City, US. Occupation. Film director. Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic french style to a modern American audience. She has won two Academy Awards ...
Barbara Kopple Harlan County, USA 1976. Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County U.S.A. was released at a time when few documentaries made it into mainstream culture. Her film broke that precedent. It documents a community in eastern Kentucky divided by a strike at its coalmine and gets to the heart of the struggle between industry and labor in America.
Jul 24, 2015 · Barbara Kopple Reflects on Joys and Dangers of Filming ‘Harlan County, USA’. In Barbara Kopple ’s 40-year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, the 68-year-old two ...
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Dec 31, 2014 · 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 Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate ...
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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. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle ...
