“Harlan County, USA,” Barbara Kopple’s 1976 documentary about a coal miners’ strike in southeast Kentucky, is about one of those conflicts. On one side: the miners, men whose families have ...

In Barbara Kopple’s 40-plus year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, she has won Academy Awards for the seminal 1976 documentary “Harlan County, U.S.A.” a portrait ...

In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners ...

CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer and Oscar-winning director/producer Barbara Kopple ... documentary category, for “Harlan County USA” and “American Dream.” Kopple most recently completed ...

“Wolf Blitzer and Barbara Kopple each continue to enjoy successful ... in the Oscars’ Best Documentary category, for Harlan County USA and American Dream. Her most recent doc is Gumbo ...

Barbara Kopple is a groundbreaker. She is the only woman to have won two Academy Awards for best documentary — the first for her 1976 solo feature debut, Harlan County, ...

Barbara Kopple spent much of her twenties ... Her resulting film, Harlan County, USA, won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1976 and helped invent the modern doc. Her latest film, Gumbo Coalition ...

Kamau Bell, Barbara Kopple and Ramin Bahrani have been ... behind Academy Award-winning documentaries “Harlan County, USA” and “American Dream,” will share her experiences in conceiving ...

This documentary features new interviews with producer-director Barbara Kopple ... and three people featured in HARLAN COUNTY USA: United Mine Workers organizer Houston Elmore, miner Jerry ...

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County ... Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving ...