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    Harlan County, U.S.A.

    PG1977 · Documentary · 1h 43m

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  1. 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 .

  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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    • Barbara Kopple
    • 1977-09-28
  3. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review dave s Documentarian Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA is a remarkable film, following a thirteen-month coal miner strike at the ...

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  4. Aug 3, 2010 · Harlan County U.S.A (1976) -- (Movie Clip) They Can't Shoot The Union Out Of Me One of many sequences featuring wives of workers from the Duke Power Company’s Brookside Mine, (noted activist Lois Scott in the blue outfit), plus strikers and frustrated union organizers, director Barbara Kopple using Florence Reece’s famous song from the 1930’s Harlan County uprisings, in Harlan County U.S ...

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  5. Feb 16, 2006 · Harlan Country, U.S.A. Nowhere has the plight of the American mineworker been so powerfully chronicled as in "Harlan County, U.S.A." 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

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  8. 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 ...

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