{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)","description":"This week's Watchcast takes us on a trip down to Harlan County, U.S.A. as we tackle Barbara Kopple's gripping (and Academy Award winning) documentary about the 1973 miners' strike against Duke Power.\n\nCHAPTERS:\n\n(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 179: Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)\n(00:00:57) - Intro.\n(00:07:38) - Geography lessons with the Nextlander gang.\n(00:12:53) - On Bloody Harlan, and some discussion of the movie's structure.\n(00:20:41) - How this movie came to be.\n(00:37:02) - Break!\n(00:37:24) - We're back, and it's time to venture down to Kentucky.\n(00:42:01) - Our first glimpses at the life of the strikers.\n(00:51:34) - A personal retelling of Bloody Harlan, and the first encounter with the gun thugs.\n(00:58:05) - The women of the community become more directly involved.\n(01:05:24) - Open conflicts begin to errupt, and people are taken to jail.\n(01:10:37) - Heading to New York.\n(01:17:22) - The Farmington accident, and discussion of black lung.\n(01:23:26) - The Boyle/Yablonski affair.\n(01:32:02) - Tensions are boiling in Harlan.\n(01:41:13) - The road blockade and the warrant for Basil Collins.\n(01:46:58) - The killing of Lawrence Jones.\n(01:51:18) - The fight is never over.\n(02:01:24) - Final thoughts.\n(02:07:00) - Housekeeping for next week's doc: Apollo 11!\n(02:11:45) - Outro.","author_name":"The Nextlander Watchcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5117047-the-nextlander-watchcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43662700/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}