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Harlan County USA

by Jim Hoberman

March 2, 2011

Dir. Barbara Kopple (1976).
Drawing on decades of popular front rhetoric Barbara Kopple’s bicentennial Oscar winner is one stirring union doc and who doesn’t need one these days—or shouldn’t I ask?

Tue., March 15, 8 p.m., 2011

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