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Harlan County U.S.A.

Cast

Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks, Bessie Lou Cornett View All

Crew

Barbara Kopple (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 15th, 1976

Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes

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...

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