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 gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
Documentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack...
'Hannah' tells the story of Buddhist pioneer Hannah Nydahl and her life bringing Tibetan Buddhism to...
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her d...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...
A dual portrait of young drifters on the streets of Odessa, where every day seems the same and the f...
The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, ...
Uncovering the profiteering of the state's water barons and how they affect farmers, average citizen...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
The alien abduction phenomenon, told by those who experienced it, with the weight of a Pulitzer Priz...
The drought in the American West is predicted to be the worst in 1,000 years. Join five Academy Awar...
After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her n...
This Traveltalk series short visit to Kentucky starts with a view of the Cumberland River, which flo...
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard mov...
This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black America...
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field wor...
A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while tell...
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinemath...