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Harlan County USA
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Harlan County USA

7.5/10
Documentary
1h 45mDir. Barbara Kopple(1977)

ABOUT THE FILM: 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 Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-mont

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Cast

N

Norman Yarborough

Self - Eastover Mining President

H

Houston Elmore

Self - UMW Organizer

P

Phil Sparks

Self - UMW Staff

B

Bessie Lou Cornett Parker

Self

S

Sudie Crusenberry

Self

M

Mary Lou Fergerson

Self

B

Basil Collins

Self - Mine Foreman

F

Florence Reece

Self

About Harlan County USA

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.

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