Harlan County, U.S.A. – Criterion Collection Movie Streaming
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Harlan County, U.S.A. – Criterion Collection Movie Streaming.
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When I told the librarian I wanted to search for a video on coal mining, she handed me “Harlan County.” I looked at the date – which indicated that the coal miners’ strike featured in the movie took status in the early 1970s and I handed it relieve to her saying, “No, I’m eager in something with more history in it.”
A few days later, I felt impelled to return to the library and score this VHS. I sat down to gape it one morning and could not turn it off. It’s compelling, enthralling, educational and emotional. I cried several times, watching the struggle and learning more and more about a coal miner’s life.
For the last few months, I’ve been doing research (in preparation for a book on Sears Homes) about Standard Oil’s coal mines in Macoupin County, Illinois in the 1920s. “Harlan County” showed archival footage and presented information that showed what a miner’s life looked like – through the ages. Duke Power’s coal mines in Harlan County, Kentucky were so backwards and Standard Oil’s coal mines in Macoupin County, Illinois were so progressive, that I learned more than I ever expected about early 1900s mining techniques.
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The sage about the man and the mules is something I’ll never ever forget. Or the miner’s conversation with the Novel York policeman. Thank God for the director Ms. Koppel, who was inspired to execute this documentary! And for her having the wisdom and foresight to describe these frail miners’ reminiscences of life in the coal mines in the early years of the 20th Century.
Suddenly, all the puzzle pieces from my months of book reading and research came together when I saw these old-fashioned films and heard the miners talk.
I’ll be watching it again and again – with my family, too. And I hope every person who uses electricity in this country will glance it, too.
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An lively aside – in the 1920s in Macoupin County, Illinois, one coal miner died (on average) for every 279,000 tons of coal that was mined. Between 1900-1969, 100,000 miners died in this country. Standard Oil’s mines (operated from 1918-1925) in Macoupin County may have been the safest mines in the country, but several men died in those mines, too.
In 1918, Standard Oil of Indiana built 192 Sears Novel Homes for their (mostly immigrant) miners in Macoupin County. (The term “Unusual Homes” simply meant that the houses had kitchens, bathrooms, running water, central heat and electricity.)
In 1973, Duke Power’s miners in Harlan County were serene living in shacks with no running water.
Rose Thornton
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I am from Harlan County, Kentucky. This movie is a compelling visual of my family and its rich history of roots and labor. Harlan was known benefit then as “Bloody Harlan” because of the conflicts regarding the site. There is a song called “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”, it embodies this documentary of the 70s. People spent their lives digging coal until they reached the bottom of their grave.
My mother grew up in those coal camps and knew no other life. She was pregnant with me during the filming of the documentary and worked at a little resturant where she met my daddy who was a coal miner. She stated that those times were hard and impartial left it at that…she did not yelp about it very often and when she did…it was slit short. My dad made it through the riots and protesting, but he died in those mines in 1980 from a rock drop because the saftey conditions were so awful. My stepfather has worked in the coal mines for almost 30 years. He, like many others in Harlan are aware of the dangers when traveling into this deep graveside that holds so many.
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I have watched this movie many times with my grandmother who was upright there on the picket lines protesting these conditions. When we gawk it now, she always points at the television and says…you know that is such and such…it’s humorous how she never forgets who and what that time was about.
My generation of Harlan County USA has seen puny of what our parents and grandparents endured relieve in the 1970s. My brother has now entered the world of coal mining and the tradition continues. It is worthy safer now. My father wants to be a Mine and Saftey inspector because he remembers what it was like and how far they have near. Coal mining is our legacy, our intention of life. We have it high and its the most fine, objective plan to gain a living that you can have in our town.
We in Harlan County will never forget the documentary that showed the world who we are and what we are made of…and let it be known, that we will never abet down from a fight.
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