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Harlan County USA documentary (1976, 105 minutes) -- online free

This won the oscar for best documentary in 1976. It is during a 13-month coal miners stirke (1973-74) against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover ...

Harlan County, USA (1976) - John Sayles Interview

This documentary won an academy award and it's a very powerful movie! I recognized one lady in the movie as a local champion for health care ...

Harlan County USA 1976 - Bookshelf


They say in Harlan County, an oral history
446 pages
They say in Harlan County, an oral history

They Say in Harlan County is not a book about coal miners so much as a dialogue in which more than 150 Harlan County women and men tell the story of their ...

Awake in the dark, the best of Roger Ebert : forty years of reviews, essays, and interviews
476 pages
Awake in the dark, the best of Roger Ebert : forty years of reviews, essays, and interviews

Harlan County, USA April 3 , 1976 One moment among many in Harlan County, USA: The striking miners are holding an all-day rally and picnic. ...

Harlan County USA 1976 - News


Minimize me
Minimize me “Harlan County, USA,” released in 1976, focused on a coal miners' strike, 2004's “Born Into Brothels” chronicled the plight of prostitutes in India and 2007's “Taxi to the Dark Side” investigated the death of an innocent Afghan driver at the hands of

How have filmmakers responded to the new global situation?
How have filmmakers responded to the new global situation? who chose Fritz Lang's House by the River (1950)—a highlight of the festival—to follow his award ceremony, and Barbara Kopple, best known for her Academy Award-winning documentary about a coal miners' struggle, Harlan County USA (1976).

Free Film School #48: Tonight I'm Gonna Docu Tonight (Part 1)
There is a great 1976 vérité film called Harlan County, USA about a miners' strike that I recommend. “Vérité,” by the way, is the French word for “truth.” It's this form that, I think, most documentarians are drawn to.

Red Carpet Reports from San Francisco International Film Festival: Fans Share ...
Meg Ocampo was among filmgoers "looking very forward to the conversation with Barbara Koppel," winner of the festival's 2012 POV Award, who shot the breakthrough 1976 documentary Harlan County, USA on the front lines of a Kentucky coal mining strike.