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Harlan County, USA
Running Time: 103 min.
MPAA Rating: PG
Produced By: / Cabin Creek Films

Summary:
Director Barbara Kopple's look at a 13-month coal miners' strike that took place between 1973 and 1974 in Harlan County, KY, is one of the great films about labor troubles, though not for a sense of objectivity. Kopple lived among the miners and thei... Full Summary >>

Review: It's hard to believe that no great documentary films came out of the labor struggles of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, when unions such as the Teamsters, the United Auto Workers, and the United Mine Workers waged battles (sometimes literally) with manage ... Continue >>

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