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Harlan County, USA

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Harlan County, USA is a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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American Dream (film)

American Dream is a 1990 cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk.

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Austin, Minnesota

Austin is a city in Mower County, Minnesota, United States.

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Barbara Kopple

Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work.

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Belgian Film Critics Association

The Belgian Film Critics Association (Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium.

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Coalworker's pneumoconiosis

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), also known as black lung disease or black lung, is caused by long-term exposure to coal dust.

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Cost of living

Cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Duke Energy

Duke Energy, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an electric power holding company in the United States, with assets also in Canada and Latin America.

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Florence Reece

Florence Reece (1900–1986) was an American social activist, poet, and folksong writer.

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Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)

The Grand Prix is an annual award presented by the Belgian Film Critics Association (Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC).

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Harlan County War (film)

Harlan County War (2000) is a television film directed by Tony Bill and written by Peter Silverman.

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Harlan County, Kentucky

Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.

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Hazel Dickens

Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist.

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Joseph Yablonski

Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Labor history (discipline)

Labor history or labour history is a sub-discipline of social history which specialises on the history of the working classes and the labor movement.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.

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United Mine Workers

The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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W. A. Boyle

William Anthony "Tough Tony" Boyle (December 1, 1904 – May 31, 1985) was president of the United Mine Workers of America union from 1963 to 1972.

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William E. Simon

William Edward Simon (November 27, 1927 – June 3, 2000) was an American businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.S. for three years, and a philanthropist.

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Women's liberation movement

The women's liberation movement (also Women's Liberation Movement, WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s, and continued to the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, and which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_USA

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