“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.

In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners ...

“Harlan County U.S.A.” depicts a labor dispute in a coal town with a violent history, where organized workers waged a 13-month strike to check the power of an industry in which employers have ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 27.--Kentucky, noted for the lawlessness of her county clans, has never had a factional feud that was more bitterly fought, and in which there was less in the way of ...