Harlan County U.S.A.(Movie, 1976)

Name: Harlan County U.S.A.
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1976
Duration: T01:43:00
Rating: 3.8

1h 43min | Genre: Documentary

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", 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. 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. ()

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About Harlan County U.S.A.

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains

Made by: Cabin Creek Films

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 01/23/1977

Cast: John O'Leary

Director: Barbara Kopple

Producer: Barbara Kopple

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Harlan County, USA"

"Harlan County: Tragédia Americana"

"Gruvarbetarna i Harlan County, USA"

"Eparhia Harlan I.P.A."

"Föld alatt, föld felett"

"Округ Харлан, США"

Keywords: mining, miners strike, labor, working class, kentucky, strike, woman director, union

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