Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

Directors

Barbara Kopple

Cast

John O'Leary

The story

Kopple initially intended to make a film about Miners for Democracy and the attempt to unseat Tony Boyle as president of the UMWA. When miners at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, went on strike against Duke Power Company in June 1973, Kopple went there to film the strike, which the UMWA had helped to organize. She decided it was the more compelling subject, so switched the focus of her film.

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