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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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  3. Aug 23, 2023 · Harlan County, USA is a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike" ,an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal...

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  4. Barbara Kopples 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.

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  5. Aug 14, 2019 · The Brookside strike is vividly recounted in Barbara Kopple’s masterpiece, the documentary “Harlan County, USA.” NONUNION AND DEADLY Today, U.S. coal comes mostly from the Western plains, dug out by huge earth-moving machinery and carried to the coasts on mile-long, dust-spewing trains.

  6. Mar 8, 2023 Full Review Kerry Schott Spare Rib Harlan County USA is a powerful documentary of a long and brave struggle. But it also shows the lack of theoretical foundations in the American...

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  7. Barbara Kopples 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.