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 ...

Two-time Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple was present, introducing her documentary, “Harlan County U.S.A.” She spoke about the creative and technical process behind her film. The 1976 ...

“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, ...

As for Kopple, the filmmaker is a seven-time Emmy nominee and two-time Academy Award winner; she is the only woman to have twice won an Oscar in the best documentary category, for “Harlan County ...

Filmed as it was happening, the film documents what became known as the “Brookside Strike” against the owners of the Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, Kentucky. Kopple’s ...

Kopple won Academy Awards for her feature documentaries “American Dream” (1991) and “Harlan County U.S.A.” (1977) — and is the only woman to have won twice in the Best Documentary category.

Barbara Kopple spent much of her twenties living among desperate Appalachian ... Harlan County, USA, won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1976 and helped invent the modern doc. Her latest ...

Kopple is a two-time Oscar winner and the only woman to have won twice in the Oscars’ Best Documentary category, for Harlan County USA and American Dream.Her most recent doc is Gumbo Coalition ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2019, coal workers in Harlan County, Kentucky, staged a two-month-long railroad blockade to force bankrupt coal company Blackjewel to pay them what they were owed. (It worked ...

Attendees can hear from hip-hop impresario Jermaine Dupri, Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (“Harlan County USA”), Stuckey’s chair Stephanie Stuckey and a variety of authors ...