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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.
The 1976 documentary film Harlan County, USA, winner of the 1977 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, focuses on similar labor violence of the 1970s but refers to the 1930s violence as context. (Florence Reece appears in the film.) The 2000 television movie Harlan County War starred Holly Hunter.
Harlan County War (2000) is a ... A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, ... Harlan County, USA, a documentary about the Brookside ...
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.
At the UMW, Aronson led a 13-month-long organizing campaign in Harlan County, Kentucky. Aronson appears twice in the Academy Award-winning documentary Harlan County, U.S.A., which chronicles the strike. Aronson served six years in the United States Army Reserve and received an honorable discharge in 1976.
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. ... 2006: Darby Mine disaster in Harlan County kills five miners. On May 20, 2006, ...
A good bit of Appalachian history and arts got soaked in the record flooding in Eastern Kentucky.. In Whitesburg, water may have breached the vault at Appalshop, where the arts and media ...
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