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Harlan County USA (English) DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: PG
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 104 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: May 23, 2006
  • Closed Captioning: No
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Color: Black & White
  • Includes:
    New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by producer-director Barbara Kopple
    Audio commentary by Kopple and editor Nancy Baker
    The Making of Harlan County USA a new documentary featuring interviews with Kopple, crew members, and strike participants featured in the film
    Never-before-seen outtakes from the film
    New video interview with legendary bluegrass singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens
    New video interview with director John Sayles
    A panel discussion from the 2005 Sundance Film Festival featuring Kopple and Roger Ebert
    Original theatrical trailer
    New essays by film scholar Paul Arthur and music journalist Jon Weisberger
  • Release Date: 1976
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-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

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