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Harlan County, USA (1976)

★ 8.2PG103 min

1976 American documentary film

Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) 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.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Harlan County, USA about?
Harlan County, USA (1976) — 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 mo
Is Harlan County, USA based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Harlan County, USA scary?
Content rating: PG. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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