Harlan County USA is a documentary film which shows the life and struggles of a group of coal miners, as they resort to a strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.
When billions of dollars are at stake, just how far are corporations willing to go to protect their bottom line? This is a film about a US-owned gold mining corporation in Peru destroying the environment versus the people trying to preserve it.