This documentary features new interviews with producer-director Barbara Kopple, cinematographers Hart Perry and Kevin Keating, associate director Anne Lewis, and three people featured in HARLAN COUNTY USA: United Mine Workers organizer Houston Elmore, miner Jerry Johnson, and strike activist Bessie Parker.

The Making of 'Harlan County U.S.A.'

A West Virginia community is deeply divided over potentially life and death questions over a local chemical plant that fuels the area's fragile economy.

Chemical Valley

An inside look at the lives of women who fry chicken, make pizzas, and flip burgers at four fast food restaurants in eastern Kentucky. Documents the low wage, no benefits jobs in America's service economy.

Fast Food Women

This documentary follows the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) strike against the Pittston Coal Company and explores the strike's social, cultural, and economic impact on coalfield communities.

Justice in the Coalfields

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (1924-2006) is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed as a white southerner who was eloquent and prophetic by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. Ostracized as a red, she fought for an inclusive movement community and mentored three generations of social justice activists.