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Harlan County U.S.A.
Directed by
Barbara Kopple
PG
1976
1h 43m
Documentary
8.2
100%
92%
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A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
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Cast of Harlan County U.S.A.
Norman Yarborough
Self - Eastover Mining President
Houston Elmore
Self - UMW Organizer
Phil Sparks
Self - UMW Staff
Bessie Lou Cornett Parker
Self
Sudie Crusenberry
Self
Mary Lou Fergerson
Self
Basil Collins
Self - Mine Foreman
Florence Reece
Self
Lois Scott
Self
Harlan County U.S.A. Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Elliott Stein
Few documentaries rivet you to your seat; this one does. The guts it took to make are up there on the screen, in the footage shot by director Barbara Kopple and cameraman Hart Perry during the violent encounters.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
Riveting 1976 docu about striking miners has some violence.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
One of the better and more rousing labor strike films that calls attention to class war in America.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
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
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
A seminal documentary about the complexity of American unionism, reflecting director Kopple's ideology, one that combines Old Left socialism with American populism
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
serves as an important historical document and unfortunately remains as relevant today as it was thirty years ago
Filmcritic.com
Jake Euker
At its least it's an impassioned indictment of those who would exploit the powerless and at best a call to arms.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...a portrait of America at its greediest and most haggard.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
Suffers from some makeshift structural devices and occasional lapses of judgment, but it's an ardent, absorbing work of partisan documentary film-making.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Kopple's rather terrifying film rocked its minuscule audience and instantly became a cultural touchstone.
Nashville Scene
Jason Shawhan
Harlan County USA is one of the most important films ever made about American labor.
United Press International
David Dugas
Hollywood could do some thing with a story like [this] but no fictional script could begin to capture the drama played out in a remarkable documentary, Harlan County, U.S.A., by New York filmmaker Barbara Kopple.
FF2 Media
Amelie Lasker
Despite all this exhaustion, desperation, and anger, I'm struck by the joy and hope in this documentary.
Bay Area Reporter
Chris Sosa
It's still the scariest goddamn movie I've never seen.
Big Mama Rag
Marquitta Mayes
Barbara Kopple, producer-director... got into the meat of her subject right off the bat, and still was very careful to give her audience a taste of every aspect of the Harlan County miners and their families.
Sojourner
Reed Stevens-Dewey
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.
The Nation
Robert Hatch
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.
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
Raw emotions on display without any manipulation...
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Barbara Kopple isn't a great documentarian, but she has a great subject in Harlan County, U.S.A, and she has the taste and sensitivity not to betray it.
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