Central Cinema is pleased to be teaming up with the Knoxville Oak Ridge Central Labor Council for a special International Workers’ Day presentation of Barbara Kopple’s landmark HARLAN COUNTY USA, screening in its brand new 4K restoration! Experience this essential documentary with FREE ADMISSION & SNACKS Friday night courtesy of KORCLC, or catch a ticketed encore screening Saturday afternoon.

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning HARLAN COUNTY USA unflinchingly documents a grueling 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. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah 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. (Janus Films)

“One of the most important films ever made about American labor.” – Nashville Scene

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