Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

7.6	Listal rating
8.2	IMDB rating

Directed by

Barbara Kopple

Starring (View all)

Norman Yarborough

Himself - Eastover Mining President

Houston Elmore

Himself - UMW organizer

Phil Sparks

Himself - UMW staff

John Corcoran

Himself - Consolidated Coal President

John O'Leary

Himself - former Bureau of Mines director

Donald Rasmussen

Himself - Blackwing Clinic, WV

Hawley Wells Jr.

Himself

Tom Williams

Himself - Boyle campaigner

Harlan County U.S.A. Trailers

Harlan County USA

12 Views

Added 1 year ago

View all Harlan County U.S.A. videos

Cover art, photos and screenshots

View all Harlan County U.S.A. pictures

Lists

116 votes

Amazing Underrated Obscure Bizarre Films PART 11 (50 items)
list by JayTrotter

Published 9 months, 1 week ago

11 comments

39 votes

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (1003 items)
list by jaytoast

Published 2 years, 9 months ago

9 comments

36 votes

best documentaries (209 items)
list by Mr. Saturn

Published 1 year, 2 months ago

4 comments

33 votes

IMDB Classic Film Board: Doubling the Canon! (1001 items)
list by Lamourderer

Published 1 year, 1 month ago

2 comments

25 votes

movies and shows that made me weep (74 items)
list by Mr. Saturn

Published 1 year, 3 months ago

2 comments

View all Harlan County U.S.A. lists (11 more)

Description: This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun- ... (more)

Release date : 28 September 1977

Documentary (2), Usa (1), Unions (1), 1976 (1), Criterion Collection (1), American History/Culture (1), Education (1), Docudrama (1), Sort (1), Decline (1), Industry (1), Strike (1)

Join Listal to add your own lists, reviews, tags, pictures and videos to this Movie

Update feed

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 2 months, 3 weeks ago

70s films (153 movies items)

arnott added this to a list 2 months, 3 weeks ago

100 Greatest Documentary Films by Digitaldreamdoor (95 movies items)

davidthecollar added this to a list 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Incomplete list (20 movies items)

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 3 months, 3 weeks ago

movies and shows that made me weep (74 tv items)

Movies and stuff added this to a list 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Documentaries (56 movies items)

Stehako added this to a list 5 months, 1 week ago

Best Films of 1976 (30 movies items)

jaytoast added this to a list 5 months, 3 weeks ago

2013 - My Film Queue (392 movies items)

fliep added this to a list 7 months, 1 week ago

movie (132 movies items)

JayTrotter added this to a list 9 months, 1 week ago

Amazing Underrated Obscure Bizarre Films PART 11 (50 movies items)

"You gotta see a Barbara Kopple documentary at some point in your life so hold the line, quit being a douchebag scab and make this the one. "

Lamourderer added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago

IMDB Classic Film Board: Doubling the Canon! (1001 movies items)

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago

best documentaries (209 movies items)

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago

Rate Your Music's Top 1000 Films (1000 movies items)

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago

Socialism (59 movies items)

Petri added this to a list 1 year, 3 months ago

99 Great Documentaries (99 movies items)

sleepless101 added this to a list 1 year, 9 months ago

Watched in 2011 (104 movies items)

"30/8 Wow, three in a row that I enjoyed. This one was a walk through a culture that seemed almost foreign to me, even though it takes place in my own country. I caught myself trying to recognize different cultural nuances and actually having to go back a bit to figure out what these people were saying. I started thinking about how terrible the big bad coal monopolies were, and ended thinking that the miners would never be satisfied. All in all, a pretty great doc."

jaytoast added this to a list 2 years, 9 months ago

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (1003 movies items)

AFIoscar added this to a list 2 years, 9 months ago

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (321 movies items)

"1976 WINNER - Cabin Creek Films. Barbara Kopple, producer "

Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

Harlan County U.S.A. Trailers

Harlan County USA

Cover art, photos and screenshots

Lists

Recommend this to a friend

Update feed