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Harlan County USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards.

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by File:PICKET LINE AT THE BROOKSIDE MINE COMPANY IN HARLAN COUNTY KENTUCKY, NEAR MIDDLESBORO IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE... - NARA - 556543.jpg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Harlan County, USA

1976 film by Barbara Kopple

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