Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): .flv file, sound, color with black and white sequences |
Summary |
Barbara Kopple's Academy Award-winning HARLAN COUNTY USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners' strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners' sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack-with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece-the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line |
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Title from title frames |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1976 |
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This version distributed by The Criterion Collection |
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Presented in the original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 |
Credits |
Cinematography, Hart Perry, Kevin Keating ; editing, Nancy Baker, Mary Lampson ; music, Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis |
Performer |
Houston Elmore, John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough with performances by Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece |
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In English |
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Optional English captions for the hearing-impaired (SDH) |
Subject |
United Mine Workers of America.
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Eastover Mining Company.
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Duke Power Company.
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SUBJECT |
Eastover Mining Company fast |
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United Mine Workers of America fast |
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Duke Power Company fast |
Subject |
Coal Miners' Strike, Harlan County, Ky., 1973.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Kentucky -- Harlan County
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Coal miners -- Kentucky -- Harlan County
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Sociology.
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Sociology
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sociology.
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Strikes and lockouts
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Coal miners
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Americans
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Documentary films
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Sociology
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Kentucky -- Harlan County
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documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Internet videos.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Kopple, Barbara, film producer, film director.
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Elmore, Houston, on-screen participant
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Corcoran, John, 1915?- on-screen participant
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O'Leary, John Francis, 1926-1987, on-screen participant.
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Yarborough, Norman, on-screen participant.
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Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011, singer.
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Travis, Merle, singer.
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Perry, Hart, director of photography.
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Keating, Kevin, 1944- director of photography.
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Baker, Nancy, 1946- editor of moving image work.
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Lampson, Mary, editor of moving image work.
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Cabin Creek Films, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), publisher.
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