Harlan

This film documents the coal miners strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between guntoting company thugs, scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive womenfolk.