rich 1.0 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. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 179: Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) (00:00:57) - Intro. (00:07:38) - Geography lessons with the Nextlander gang. (00:12:53) - On Bloody Harlan, and some discussion of the movie's structure. (00:20:41) - How this movie came to be. (00:37:02) - Break! (00:37:24) - We're back, and it's time to venture down to Kentucky. (00:42:01) - Our first glimpses at the life of the strikers. (00:51:34) - A personal retelling of Bloody Harlan, and the first encounter with the gun thugs. (00:58:05) - The women of the community become more directly involved. (01:05:24) - Open conflicts begin to errupt, and people are taken to jail. (01:10:37) - Heading to New York. (01:17:22) - The Farmington accident, and discussion of black lung. (01:23:26) - The Boyle/Yablonski affair. (01:32:02) - Tensions are boiling in Harlan. (01:41:13) - The road blockade and the warrant for Basil Collins. (01:46:58) - The killing of Lawrence Jones. (01:51:18) - The fight is never over. (02:01:24) - Final thoughts. (02:07:00) - Housekeeping for next week's doc: Apollo 11! (02:11:45) - Outro. The Nextlander Watchcast https://audioboom.com/channels/5117047-the-nextlander-watchcast Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43662700/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8907743/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>