HARLAN COUNTY USA

Special Features: New 4K Restoration | 50th Anniversary

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award®–winning HARLAN COUNTY USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack — with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Ogan Gunning and Florence Reece — the film is a heartbreaking record of the 13-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/PROD Barbara Kopple. U.S., 1976, color, 103 min. RATED PG

Run Time: 103 Minutes

Opening Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026

Genre: Documentary

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