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BFI / Sight and SoundUK

Whose side are you on?: Harlan County U.S.A. reviewed in 1978

10.14

As Barbara Kopple’s miners’ strike documentary turns 50, we republish our original review of the film from Sight and Sound’s sister publication Monthly Film Bulletin.

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