Harlan County, U.S.A.
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Director: Barbara Kopple
1976 / 103min / 35mm
When a few score impoverished coal miners and their wives stood up against the collected might of the Eastover Coal Company in southeastern Kentucky, documentarian Kopple was on the ground and right in the thick of the pickets, recording the Brookside Strike over the course of a year and a half to produce this rough-and-ready, country- and bluegrass-scored protest classic that lets working people tell their own story, and asks in no uncertain terms: which side are you on?
Q&A with Barbara Kopple August 13
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