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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.
Harlan County, USA took four years to make and cost over $200,000. [12] Continuing production was financially demanding on Kopple and her small crew, who regularly moved back-and-forth between Harlan and New York to collect financial backing from grant proposals and odd jobs, even writing letters for money from miners’ homes. [12]
In 1976, she sang "Oh, Death" with her father in the documentary Harlan County, USA. [1] Workman's music was an essential part of the film. After the film's success, including it winning the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary, both Workman and Boyens gained widespread media attention. [2] [4]
The filmmakers behind 'Union,' a documentary about the successful fight to unionize an Amazon warehouse, consider it a labor story about the gig economy and a new generation of activists.
Harlan County War (film) Harlan County, USA; The Hole Idea; Hush (1998 film) I. In Old Kentucky (1927 film) In the Radiant City; J. Judge Priest; Judgment of the ...
The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931–39 (University of Illinois Press, 2002) is also titled after the song. Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest part 1, 2003 documentary. The song plays during the end credits of the 2016 drama In Dubious Battle. The song, Florence Reece, and the Harlan miner's strike feature in episode 2 of Damnation.
Release: June 4, 2000 () Harlan County War (2000) is a ... Harlan County, USA, a documentary about the Brookside strike in 1972; Matewan, ...
The Times of Harvey Milk documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor.The film documents Milk's rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination in November 1978 at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.