Harlan County USA

This is the Harlan County USA movie trailer. This is a documentary talking about the mine strikes of Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973 where the laborers and miners of Harlan took on the mine owner, Duke Power, and its henchmen and formulated a strike with a move to go union.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Harlan
• Kentucky
• Duke
• Power
• Mining
• Union
• Strike

[ozzirt]

Land of the free,.. huh???

The Usa has some of the most backward labour laws in the world, laws that would not be out of place in China or many other third world countries.

Yet Americans are always telling others of their freedoms, ...

You are only free to do, what the government and big industry wants you to do. If you resist, the government will send in the troops to shoot and beat their own citizens. You are NOT free, and movies like this will show you that fact.

[Zepman1984]

@SomeWhereInTheSouth Ah, yes, because judging by your attitude and words you are a truly sophisticated individual (I would say human being, but I don't think that would be very fitting).

So let me tell you something, you little suburbanite prick, sophistication and intelligence doesn't come with region or occupation. My grandfather worked as an electrician in the mines, and I can guarantee he had more brains and knowledge than your little globalized, Hollywood-warped, generic ass ever could.

[90038jhon]

Best labor doc ever. Top ten documentary of all time.

[moonshinerunner1]

@SomeWhereInTheSouth Hey you ignorant prick, without coal the nation would have frozen to death in the 30's when the really violent strikes took place. My grandmother is from Pineville, she served as a nurse in California during the war and became liaison to the governor of Kentucky. She has accomplished more in her 89 years of existence than you can even imagine, and she is ten times more sophisticated than you can ever hope to be.

[popZoro]

Why is my videos in the suggestions?

[lotusgdess]

Those people are treated like serfs. Feudalism was supposed to have ended 300 years ago. RISE UP. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!!

[BobDylanFan1966]

where the sun rises at 10 am and sets at 3pm

[BLUEMOONGRASS]

new song at BLUEMOONGRASS about the fine folks of HARLAN COUNTY and the coal mines..add to your favorites and check it out...HILLS OF KENTUCKY...a song to sing around the campfires.

[jfs316]

My great grandfather, my uncles, my father and cousins still work in these condition. God bless Dole Smith who passed away inside the mines. The Smith family has been working in the mines since they opened. Being 6 "2 inches tall 250 lbs. Just a little to big to fit in the 4 by 4 tunnel given to work in. Bless Curtis Smith for doing what he had to so to make a better life for his childeren and his grandchilderen. I love my heritage I share with the Hensley's family my grandmother Jenny Hensley.