Documentary: (1973) Harlan County Coalminers strike (London, Brooks: dorm, theatre, high school)

[mkfarnam]

This is a live documentary/biography on the 1973 coalminers strike in Brookside, Ky.
You need to find some time because it's 1hr: 44min's. long.
Or You can save the movie to your desktop and watch it later.

Some may have to sign up but I've been watching "free" online movies from this site for 3 years.
To save, just right click the page and then click "create short cut". That will put a link on you desktop.

Harlan County USA Movie | Harlan County USA Cast and Crew | Fancast (http://www.fancast.com/movies/Harlan-County%2C-U.S.A./4137/1552293472/Harlan-County-USA/videos - broken link)

[HiBall]

Thanks mkfarnam.

I remember when this was first aired...in reality it was just a few short years ago.

I urge everyone to watch this. You could be enlightened.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by HiBall

Thanks mkfarnam.

I remember when this was first aired...in reality it was just a few short years ago.

I urge everyone to watch this. You could be enlightened.

I was about 17 when that strike took place. I always enjoy old documentaries.

My hats off for the men and women back then who risked everything so their kids wouldn't have to live the life they did.

This strike created a domino affect and change this country.

[rxpwas]

Back in the summer of 1978, when I took a high school trip to Europe, in one of the subway stations ("Underground" or "Tube") in London, England, on the wall was an advertisement for the documentary "Harlan County, USA" (I myself am from another county in Eastern Ky.).

[Truesixkiller]

After recently viewing this documentary my main response was "what ever happened to these people?" To think that this area now votes solid Republican, a party that most certainly favors the perspective of the "fat cat" mine owning corporations and a party that has done its best to destroy unions and the union movement in America over the past thirty plus years boggles the mind! I just can't imagine the likes of Mitch McConnel, Rand Paul or Mitt Romney giving a rat's ass about mine safety, miners wages, pensions, medical coverage, etc., especially if it at the expense of the mine owning corporation. Really sad.

[kentuckygirl52]

my dad was a coal miner he worked very hard for his family of 10

[Dayton Sux]

I saw it in a movie theatre in the 1970s and later on video (VHS).

When in college at U of K I was in a dorm with a guy from Harlan who was related to the gun thug prominently featured in that film. Yeah, apparently he was an SOB in real life, too...film isn't overdramatizing in that case.

A good look and feel of Kentucky in the 1970s, my teenage years there.

[Jtmac71]

You saw that in London. I'm from Pike County originally, but aren't the Brits, Irish, and Scott's almost like people from KY?

[Jtmac71]

Yes coal mining is hard work. My dad didn't work in the mines because his dad died from black lung. Instead he did 3 tours in Vietnam because he thought it was safer LOL. I still have cousins that work the mines and they're making good money!