| Harlan County, USA | |
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 The Criterion Collection DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Barbara Kopple |
| Produced by | Barbara Kopple |
| Cinematography | Kevin Keating Hart Perry |
| Edited by | Nancy Baker Mary Lampson Lora Hays |
| 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 |
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.
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.
- ^ Pollitt, D. H. (April 17, 1991). In: A. McColl. Oral History Interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, April 17, 1991. Interview L-0064-9. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Library.