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The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. Matewan was a critical success but a box office flop, grossing under $2 million on an estimated $4 million budget.
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Black and Italian miners, brought in ...
Aug 28, 1987 · Matewan: Directed by John Sayles. With Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn. A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
Oct 29, 2019 · Matewan brings to life an important moment of solidarity in labor history. The Appalachian miners learn to get along with the black and Italian men and their families who have been relocated to Mingo County by the coal companies, all to the tune of the Italian labor anthem “Avanti popolo.”.
Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920.
Aug 28, 1987 · ''Matewan'' borrows its title from the name of the small mining community in the West Virginia hills where, in the opening sequence, the Stone Mountain Coal Company is attempting...
Union organizer, Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson (James Earl Jones) and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company...
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- History, Drama
- PG-13
Mar 16, 2021 · An old and big black man named ‘Few Clothes’ Johnson (James Earl Jones) steps up and saves his men from the unforeseen fight. Joe Kenehan gets off at Matewan station, where he meets Bridey Mae Tolliver (Nancy Mette), a young widow who has lost her husband to a mining accident.
When the mine owners in the small West Virginia town of Matewan decide to come down hard on their striking workers during the 1920s, everyone in the community bands together to resist. The man behind this unity is Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a union organizer whose pacifism is his source of strength.
Aug 28, 1987 · When the coal company brings immigrants and minorities to Matewan as cheaper labor, union organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) scours the town to unite all miners in a strike.
