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Please join us for a FREE movie night. Rockford United Labor, AFL-CIO will host a free community movie night, showing the Academy Award winning documentary Harlan County, U.S.A.
Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike",[1] a 1973 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. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards.
It was directed and produced by filmmaker Barbara Kopple, then early in her filmmaking career. A former VISTA volunteer, she had worked on other documentaries, especially as an advocate of workers' rights.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Nordlof Center, 118 N Main St, Rockford, IL 61101-1102, United States,Rockford, Illinois
