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That’s one of the harsh realities of Harlan County USA. Barbara Kopple’s documentary camera looks at this forgotten corner of 1970s America, the site of some of the bitterest labor violence in American history. It’s hard to believe that some 40 years after the Depression, there were parts of Appalachia that were hardly better off than they were in the 1930s. The care-worn faces of the.
Essay on Earth. Page 10 of 50 - About 500 Essays Salt Of The Earth Analysis. films I watched for this film journal were Harlan County, USA and Salt of the Earth. The two films were both about miners fighting for their rights. Harlan County, USA is a documentary about the Harlan strike in Kentucky. The miners wanted to get better safety measures and pay. The Duke Power Company would not take.
Harlan County USA Alternative; Synopsis. Harlan is a tough mining community in the Appalachian mountain area of Kentucky. The film shows the development of the miners' union from the turn of the century to recent years when the rank and file took over and details the year long strike carried on by the coal miners at the Brookside Works in Harlan County, East Kentucky. Shows the picketing, the.
Harlan County USA, now available from Criterion,. As Paul Arthur notes in the essay accompanying this Criterion edition, unused portions of the film were “used as organizing and fund-raising tools.” One could imagine this DVD being used the same way. The film’s conclusion refuses to rest on the laurels of the contract acceptance; instead, it is clear that the struggles continue, and.
However, when she is at her best, such as in her classic, Academy Award winning documentary, from 1976, Harlan County, USA, she’s almost nonpareil as a documentarian. As skilled a propagandist as Michael Moore is, he’s not in a league with Kopple. And, even the great Errol Morris has had more misfires than Kopple. Perhaps the only documentarian who consistently provokes as much as Kopple.
A true classic of the genre, Harlan County, USA should be required viewing for every progressive and union-lover. This documentary (director Barbara Kopple’s first feature) chronicles the Brookside coal mine’s 1973 strike, using interviews and footage from union meetings, rallies, protests, and long, dark nights on the picket line.