Harlan County, USA documents a dark subject, but it is far from being a dark picture. Barbara Kopple’s record of the year and more struggle whereby the coal miners, and notably their wives and ...

“Harlan County, USA” is streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel. More: Film. John Dougherty. John Dougherty is the Director of Mission & Ministry at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, Penn.

Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple first found her way into Variety in 1972 as she began work on her first film, “Harlan County, USA.” ...

In Harlan County, we were in the coal fields, living with bucket showers and outhouses. Nothing was more important. In the ’60s and ’70s, Albert and David Maysles were at the center of a great ...

Barbara Kopple‘s groundbreaking documentary “Harlan County, USA” which chronicles a historic Kentucky coal miner strike, will receive the fifth annual Legacy Award from Cinema Eye Honors for ...

Harlan County, USA, for which she won an Oscar in 1977, plunged viewers into the heartbreaking but ultimately victorious struggle of Kentucky coal miners to unionize.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, played by Timothy Olyphant, has a quiet amiability which belies the intensity of a man who yearns to clean up Harlan County, USA, the hell hole of unemployment ...