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American Dream
Why this pick
Kopple returns to a labor strike with the same intimate access and attention to the emotional cost of solidarity, but finds a more fractured workforce and a grimmer negotiating landscape.
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MOVIE1976 1h 43m USA
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An unflinching, brilliantly filmed portrait of a coal miners' strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Barbara Kopple and her film crew captured the miners' struggles -- sometimes procedural, often violent -- with strikebreakers, local police, and armed company thugs. This Oscar-winning documentary is a thrilling portrait of a community fighting for its survival against all odds.
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