‘Harlan County, USA’ Director Barbara Kopple Isn’t Done With Labor Just Yet
When documentarian Barbara Kopple directs a film about the labor movement, she tends to go big. With 1976’s Harlan County, USA, she documented the dramatic 13-month strike waged by Kentucky coal miners against the Eastover Mining Company, filming armed standoffs and violent altercations between workers and management. In 1990’s American Dream Kopple tackled the failed…