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Harlan County USA

DATE AND TIME
Sunday, May 31 2026
4:00pm
doors at 3:30
TICKETS
via Eventbrite
$10 general, $7 for SPACE members
$15 double-feature ticket (with 7 pm screening of American Dream)
$10 double-feature ticket for SPACE members
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IRL Box Office at 534 Congress St.
Cash only. No fees.
Friday 12-6 pm + Saturday 12-4 pm

dir. Barbara Kopple
103 min. | 1976 | 4K restoration

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning 1976 documentary Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs.

Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.