Clapboard Tales Harlan County, USA is a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the “Brookside Strike”, an 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 in 1973. Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple. When the film was re-released film critic Roger Ebert praised the film, writing, “The film retains all of its power, in the story of a miners’ strike in Kentucky where the company employed armed goons to escort scabs into the mines, and the most effective picketers were the miners’ wives — articulate, indomitable, courageous. It contains a famous scene where guns are fired at the strikers in the darkness before dawn, and Kopple and her cameraman are knocked down and beaten. It received Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (Oscar)1976.Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Special Award, Barbara Kopple; 1977, Belgian Film Critics Association: Grand Prix, Barbara Kopple; 1979 and many more awards. Directed by Barbara Kopple Produced by Barbara Kopple Music by Hazel Dickens Merle Travis David Morris Cinematography Kevin Keating Hart Perry Tom Hurwitz Edited by Nancy Baker Mary Lampson Distributed by First Run Features Release date October 15, 1976 (New York Film Festival) My Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended.
Music in this video
Learn more
Listen ad-free with YouTube Premium
Song
Artist
Panopticon
Album
Kentucky
Licensed to YouTube by
The Orchard Music (on behalf of Nordvis); BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., Concord Music Publishing, and 2 Music Rights Societies
Song
Artist
Panopticon
Album
Kentucky
Licensed to YouTube by
The Orchard Music (on behalf of Nordvis), and 1 Music Rights Societies
Song
Artist
Hazel Dickens
Album
Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Licensed to YouTube by
The Orchard Music (on behalf of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings); BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., Concord Music Publishing, CMRRA, and 6 Music Rights Societies
Song
Artist
Hazel Dickens
Album
The Yablonski Murder
Licensed to YouTube by
UMG (on behalf of New Rounder); LatinAutorPerf, BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., Concord Music Publishing, and 4 Music Rights Societies
Song
Artist
Album
Lost and Gone Forever
Licensed to YouTube by
The Orchard Music (on behalf of Odyssey Music Network); BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., Hexacorp (music publishing), and 1 Music Rights Societies
Song
Artist
Mimetic Mute
Album
Negative
Licensed to YouTube by
Believe Music, The Orchard Music (on behalf of Prikosnovenie); Audiam (Publishing)
Song
Artist
Hazel Dickens
Album
They’ll Never Keep Us Down
Licensed to YouTube by
UMG (on behalf of New Rounder); Concord Music Publishing, BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., and 5 Music Rights Societies
