Harlan County, USA

Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", 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.

For other uses, see Harlan County (disambiguation).

Harlan County, USA
The Criterion Collection DVD cover
Directed byBarbara Kopple
Produced byBarbara Kopple
CinematographyKevin Keating
Hart Perry
Edited byNancy Baker
Mary Lampson
Music byHazel Dickens
Merle Travis
David Morris
Production
company
Distributed byCinema 5
Release date
  • October 15, 1976 (1976-10-15) (New York Film Festival)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

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