Archive: Year 2014
Focus America
Harlan County USA
Director
Barbara Kopple
Producer
Barbara Kopple
Cinematographers
Hart Perry
Kevin Keating
Editors
Mary Lampson
Nancy Baker
Music
Joshua Waletzky
Website
Contact
Cabin Creek Films
270 Lafayette St., Suite 710
New York, NY 10012
(212) 343 2585
[email protected]
1976
103 min
Color, Black & White
USA, 1976, Colour and B&W, 103 min
This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.
Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of a textile executive, and studied psychology at Northeastern University, after which she worked with the Maysles Brothers.
Other films in Focus America
20 Feet From Stardom
American Dream
American Promise
Buck
Coach
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Everybody Street
Facing Fear
Fruitvale Station
Gideon’s Army
Hacked Circuit
Hearts and Minds
Hoop Dreams
How To Survive a Plague
Redemption
Stevie
The Apothecary
The Interrupters
The Overnighters
The Road to Memphis
The Science of Character
The Unknown Known
Venus and Serena
When I Walk
William and the Windmill
Showtimes
No Showtimes
