Harlan County War (film)
Harlan County War (2000) is a television film directed by Tony Bill and written by Peter Silverman. It aired on Showtime.
Plot[]
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Principal cast[]
- Holly Hunter as Ruby Kincaid
- Stellan Skarsgård as Warren Jakopovich
- Ted Levine as Silas Kincaid
- Wayne Robson as Tug Jones
- Alex House as Buddy Kincaid
- Charlotte Arnold as Lucinda Kincaid
- Ker Wells as Little Lee
- Jennifer Irwin as Mary Ball
- Rufus Crawford as Bill Worthington
- as Lawrence Perkins
- Deborah Pollitt as Ora Perkins
- Tim Burd as Dillard Ball
- Tom Harvey as Jerry Selvey
- Reginald Doresa as Bronce Breckenridge
- Helen Hughes as Aunt Melva Jones
Awards and nominations[]
Emmy Awards
- Outstanding Actress Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (Hunter, nominated)
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film (Hunter, nominated)
Satellite Awards
- Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film (Hunter, nominated)
See also[]
- Harlan County, USA, a documentary about the Brookside strike in 1972
- Matewan, a drama about the Matewan strike in West Virginia, in 1920
External links[]
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Categories:
- 2000 television films
- 2000 films
- English-language films
- 2000 drama films
- American television films
- American films
- Films set in Kentucky
- Mining in film
- Films about the labor movement
- Miners' labor disputes in the United States
- Labor disputes in Kentucky
- Films directed by Tony Bill
- Films scored by Van Dyke Parks
- American drama television film stubs