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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, for Harlan County, USA (1977), about a Kentucky miners' strike, [1] and ...
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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It was directed and produced by filmmaker Barbara Kopple, then early in her filmmaking career. A former VISTA volunteer, she had worked on other documentaries, especially as an advocate of workers' rights . Synopsis.
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.
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.
Jul 24, 2015 · Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple first found her way into Variety in 1972 as she began work on her first film, “Harlan County, USA.”
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Dec 31, 2014 · Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of workers' rights, Harlan County, U.S.A. is less ambivalent in its attitude toward unions than her later American Dream, the account of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-86.
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