Program 13 Hard Ground
Harlan County, USA
- 1976 / Color / 35mm / 103 min
Director, Producer: Barbara Kopple
Photography: Kevin Keating, Hart Perry
Editing: Nancy Baker, Mary Lampson, Lora Hays
Music: Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, David Morris
Source: Cabin Creek Films
Harlan County, USA was preserved in 2004 by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York, Women in Film and Television and the Academy Film Archive.
An apprentice of the Maysles, Barbara Kopple won an Oscar for this daring documentary about a coal miners’ strike in Kentucky. Her approach was observational, but she resolutely stood on the side of the miners.