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Twelve Lions Film Festival, The Kentucky Theatre, the Kentucky Historical Society, and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom
Present a 50th Anniversary Screening of
HARLAN COUNTY, USA
Q&A with Director and Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Barbara Kopple, Moderated by New York Times Best-selling Author Silas House
FRI, SEP 25 @ 7:00PM | FREE WITH ADVANCE REGISTRATION
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We're proud to kick off this year's Twelve Lions Film Festival with a very special, 50th anniversary screening of the groundbreaking documentary Harlan County, USA, with our very special guest, the directory and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Barbara Kopple.
Harlan County, USA documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
