In Barbara Kopple’s 40-plus year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, she has won Academy Awards for the seminal 1976 documentary “Harlan County, U.S.A.” a portrait ...

The transition to cleaner energy has closed a lot of coal-fired power plants since 1976, when “Harlan County” was released. While that shift creates jobs in wind, solar and natural gas ...

“Harlan County, USA,” Barbara Kopple’s 1976 documentary about a coal miners’ strike in southeast Kentucky, is about one of those conflicts. On one side: the miners, men whose families have ...

but few of them in a place as romanticized as Harlan County, where the crushing burdens on coal miners were depicted in the 1976 Oscar-winning documentary “Harlan County, USA,” an account of a ...

Two-time Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple was present, introducing her documentary, “Harlan County U.S.A.” She spoke about the creative and technical process behind her film. The 1976 ...

In a heavy scene from Barbara Kopple’s 1976 documentary Harlan County USA, a white mother collapses weeping in front of her son’s open casket. During the historic strike against the Eastover ...