Harlan County USA 1976 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. 1 h 44 min | LABOR TALK

Barbara Kopple's HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. ('76) #TCMEssentials | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Harlan County, USA is a 1976 documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", an 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 in 1973. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards. This film chronicles the bitter and violent struggle waged by coal miners during a strike in 1973 in Eastern Kentucky against the Eastover Mining Company. The story focuses

Tomorrow night on the #TCMEssentials, Ben Mankiewicz and Ava DuVernay discuss Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary covering the Brookside Strike: HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. ('76). | Turner Classic Movies: TCM