Still, Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County, U.S.A.") has written, produced and directed tonight's two-hour documentary with her usual skill.
She appeared in the documentary Harlan County, USA and also contributed four songs to the soundtrack of the same film.
When Barbara Kopple's documentary "Harlan County, U.S.A." was released in 1976, it depicted a fierce union struggle on the part of coal miners who worked underground.
Mr. Perry, in fact, had just helped shoot Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary "Harlan County, U.S.A.," a gripping cinéma vérité account of an Appalachian coal miners' strike in 1976.
Documentarian Barbara Kopple ( Harlan County, U.S.A. ) follows Sunday clarinetist Woody Allen on tour with a New Orleans jazz band.
He played for High Splint (Harlan County coal company team) in the Pine Mountain League (summer of 1921) and batted .444.
When the ship Harlan County and its American trainers turned ignominiously away from Haiti a year ago after thugs demonstrated on the docks, Asian leaders openly mocked the U.S. To give up the Haiti mission now would be far worse.
The 1976 documentary film Harlan County, USA, winner of the 1977 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, focuses on similar labor violence of the 1970s but refers to the 1930s violence as context.
He appears onscreen briefly in the Oscar-winning 1976 documentary Harlan County, U.S.A. in his capacity as a UMW spokesperson.
And that is the focus of "Bearing Witness," directed by Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County, USA"), Bob Eisenhardt and Marijana Wooten.