Harlan County War

IMDb link: 0209013
IMDb rating: 6.4 (664 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Tony Bill
Cast: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson and others

Release date: 4 Jun 2000
Release year: 2000
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: miners' strike, harlan county kentucky, kentucky, united mine workers association, miner, mine safety, labor activist, poverty, union, violence

Plot:

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.

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