Harlan County, USA
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For other uses, see Harlan County (disambiguation).
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.
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Directed by | Barbara Kopple |
Produced by | Barbara Kopple |
Cinematography | Kevin Keating Hart Perry |
Edited by | Nancy Baker Mary Lampson |
Music by | Hazel Dickens Merle Travis David Morris |
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Distributed by | Cinema 5 |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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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.