Harlan County USA

i want to see this doc.
BTW does anyone know the song at the beginning? it sounds like pete seeger but i might be wrong

Who was Basil Collins and what happened to him?

I agree with everything you've said friend!...Shine could have burned our cars cleaner,but they did not want everyone to produce liquor or a source or petroleum that they could not figure out who owed taxes on!

Said well!

Both my Grandpa and dad were in the movie. I know my dad was company (needed the money), and I think my Grandpa was too.

Sadly true!

I have many relatives in Harlan and neighbouring SE Kentucky counties. One was the first man hung in Wise Co. VA. They led lives of great misery and sorrow, many died trying to supplement their incomes making a little shine, fighting both competitors and the revenue men.

I have many there also!...Both my Mother and Fathers side.I feel you or understand you and a it's a damn shame no one acknowledges these people for their sufferings and what the coal from those parts did to give them electric to sit on here and say stuff again't them and gripe about the pollution it created as they enjoy traveling in their automobile's coal burnt the steel with!Take care friend!

Well said!