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Barbara Kopple
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Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Sound/Sound Designer Born: July 30, 1946 in Bear Mountain, NY Biography:Documentarian "Barbara Kopple" is best known for "Harlan County, USA" (1986), her Academy Award-winning chronicle of a Kentucky miner's strike. A native of New York City, she made her first films while studying clinical psychology at a West Virginia college, and also gained experience working in various capacities with cinema verité documentarians the Maysles Brothers. When she was 26, Kopple moved to Harlan County to film a union conflict at the Brookside mine. She ended up staying for four years, observing the miners' struggles to join the United Mine Workers in the face of frequently violent resistance launched against them by the Eastover Mining Company. During that time, Kopple came to know the affected mining families intimately and became committed to helping them. The result of her involvement in the community was "Harlan County, USA". Presented from the miners' viewpoint, the documentary... Full Biography
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