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Harlan County USA Blu-Ray (UK Import)
Criterion

Pre-order - Release date: 07.09.2026

Original title: Harlan County USA

Year: 1976
Country: USA
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5061088923013

Image: 1.33:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: English - Uncompressed Mono

Subtitles: English SDH

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Documentary

Cast: -

Director: Barbara Kopple


Synopsis:

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. With a haunting soundtrack—featuring legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, David Morris, Sarah Ogan Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Extras:

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Barbara Kopple, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary by Kopple and editor Nancy Baker
• Making-of documentary featuring interviews with Kopple, crew members, and strike participants featured in the film
• Outtakes from the film
• Interview with bluegrass singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens
• Interview with filmmaker John Sayles
• Panel discussion from the 2005 Sundance Film Festival featuring Kopple and critic Roger Ebert
  
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: Essays by film critic Michael Atkinson and musician and writer Jon Weisberger