Harlan County War
"It's her turn to fight back."
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
"It's her turn to fight back."
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Holly Hunter
Ruby Kincaid
Stellan Skarsgård
Warren Jakopovich
Ted Levine
Silas Kincaid
Wayne Robson
Tug Jones
Charlotte Arnold
Lucinda Kincaid
Jennifer Irwin
Mary Ball
Rufus Crawford
Bill Worthington
Alex House
Buddy Kincaid
Deborah Pollitt
Ora Perkins
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
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