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Title: Harlan County, U.S.A.

Date: 3.2.2008
Time: 20:00
Location: Folkets Hus, Cafe Under Kontruktion
Free entrance

Director: Barbara Kopple
Year: 1976
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime, min: 103
Genre: Documentary

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.

Watch trailer:
» http://youtube.com/watch?v=iCiVMngILEI

Links
» http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_county_usa
» http://www.cabincreekfilms.com/barbara_kopple.html
» http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=harlan+county