<div> <p>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.</p><p><strong>CHAPTERS:<br></strong><br>(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 179: Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)<br>(00:00:57) - Intro.<br>(00:07:38) - Geography lessons with the Nextlander gang.<br>(00:12:53) - On Bloody Harlan, and some discussion of the movie's structure.<br>(00:20:41) - How this movie came to be.<br>(00:37:02) - Break!<br>(00:37:24) - We're back, and it's time to venture down to Kentucky.<br>(00:42:01) - Our first glimpses at the life of the strikers.<br>(00:51:34) - A personal retelling of Bloody Harlan, and the first encounter with the gun thugs.<br>(00:58:05) - The women of the community become more directly involved.<br>(01:05:24) - Open conflicts begin to errupt, and people are taken to jail.<br>(01:10:37) - Heading to New York.<br>(01:17:22) - The Farmington accident, and discussion of black lung.<br>(01:23:26) - The Boyle/Yablonski affair.<br>(01:32:02) - Tensions are boiling in Harlan.<br>(01:41:13) - The road blockade and the warrant for Basil Collins.<br>(01:46:58) - The killing of Lawrence Jones.<br>(01:51:18) - The fight is never over.<br>(02:01:24) - Final thoughts.<br>(02:07:00) - Housekeeping for next week's doc: Apollo 11!<br>(02:11:45) - Outro.</p></div>