Year: 1976
Runtime: 105 mins
Language: English
Director: Barbara Kopple
This documentary follows the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine after the company refused a United Mine Workers contract. Violent clashes erupted between company thugs and picketing miners and families. Director Barbara Kopple covers the miners’ plight and UMWA; film was preserved by Academy Film Archive in 2004.
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