Harlan County, USA is a 1976 documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards. This film chronicles the bitter and violent struggle waged by coal miners during a strike in 1973 in Eastern Kentucky against the Eastover Mining Company. The story focuses

Have you been to the KY Coal Mining Museum or Portal 31 in Harlan County? I could spend all day there and I'll show you why tonight on Backroads on Mountain News at 6. | WYMT