| Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide | “Gripping,
human documentary (an Academy Award winner) about the strike of
Kentucky mine workers against the Eastover Mining Company, a subsidiary
of Duke Power. Memorable scene of miner and Brooklyn cop having a
'conversation.'…” © Leonard Maltin, 1998-2001, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc. |
| amazon.com | “A man crouches and pokes at what first appears to be a wad of chewed-up pink bubble gum on the ground. "That's what a scab will do to ya, by God," he says, his voice quavering with emotion. The pink wad is brain tissue from a striker shot in the head by a strikebreaker. 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. T |