Harlan County, USA (2-DVD) PG
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 25, 2006
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Barbara Kopple | |
Edited by | Nancy Baker, Mirra Bank, Lora Hays & Mary Lampson | |
Composition by | Merle Travis | |
Produced by | Barbara Kopple | |
Director of Photography: | Phil Parmet & Hart Perry |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Documentary Feature: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Suffers from some makeshift structural devices and occasional lapses of judgment, but it's an ardent, absorbing work of partisan documentary film-making.
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Washington Post
Harlan County attains its main goal-to honor a segment of our society which the rest of America has been willing to write off as underdogs, victims sacrificed to the imperatives of an industrial nation.
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The Nation
Rating: 4/4 --
The film retains all of its power, in the story of a miners' strike in Kentucky where the company employed armed goons to escort scabs into the mines, and the most effective picketers were the miners' wives -- articulate, indominable, courageous.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Even after the credits ended and there was nothing to look at, we remained in our seats for several moments, stunned and moved. P.S. A lot of the credits had female names, more than this reviewer has ever seen on a commercial film.
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Sojourner
Rating: 4.5/5 --
At its least it's an impassioned indictment of those who would exploit the powerless and at best a call to arms.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: B+ --
One of the better and more rousing labor strike films that calls attention to class war in America.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: A+ --
One of the finest documentaries ever made, Barbara Kopple's "Harlan County U.S.A." is a brilliant exposé about the embattled history of coal miners in America as seen through the very personal prism of striking coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky in 19
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ColeSmithey.com
Product Description:
If Barbara Kopple had made no other film than this documentary account of the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers, arguably one of the finest documentaries ever made in the U.S. and possibly the best on the problems of organized labor, her place in film history would be assured. The strike began when the miners working for the Eastover Mining Co. joined the UMW, and its corporate parent, Duke Power, refused to sign the standard union contract. By living with the 180-odd families involved in the strike, Kopple shows the backbreaking burdens of the miners' life in the best of times and the looming fear of destitution in the worst. As the strikers strive to remain united through a difficult year, Kopple photographs the picketing, the company's use of state troopers to keep the roads open for scabs, the showdowns between the miners and strikebreakers brandishing firearms. After several shootings, one miner is finally killed. During the man's wake, a memorable sequence, his mother collapses. While the film is unabashedly partisan, it's worth remembering that the company's refusal to sign a contract was condemned by the National Labor Relations Board and that the corporation agreed to sign only under heavy pressure from federal mediators. The Oscar-winning HARLAN COUNTY, USA is a landmark in the history of American documentary filmmaking.
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- Sales Rank: 55,253
- UPC: 037429208328
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