Harlan County, USA
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| Initial release | USA |
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| Directors | Barbara Kopple |
| Producers | Barbara Kopple |
| Cast | Norman Yarborough |
| Phil Sparks | |
| Houston Elmore | |
| Editors | Mary Lampson |
| Nancy Baker | |
| Mirra Bank | |
| Lora Hays | |
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| ID | 805337 |
About Harlan County, USA
In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners refuse the labor contract. Once the miners start to strike, the owners of the mine respond by hiring scabs to fill the jobs of the regular employees. The strike, which lasts more than a year, frequently becomes violent, with guns produced on both sides, and one miner is even killed in a conflict.
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