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Barbara Kopple
Highest Rated: 100% Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Lowest Rated: 45% Havoc (2005)
Birthday: Jul 30, 1946
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Documentarist whose celebrated films have focused almost exclusively on the struggle of workers to form unions. Kopple began making films in her clinical psychology class while at college in West Virginia and went to live among her coal-mining subjects in Kentucky to film her Oscar-winning debut, "Harlan County, U.S.A." (1976). The film chronicles the miners' violent struggle to join the United Mine Workers union and the effect of the strike on the lives of them and their families. Praised for putting a human face on a political issue, it was one of 25 films chosen by the Library of Congress to be placed on its Film Registry in 1990.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gumbo Coalition |
Director, Producer |
- | 2022 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | The Dilemma of Desire | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
| 88% |
|
Desert One | Director | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New Homeland |
Director, Producer |
- | 2018 |
| 67% |
|
A Murder in Mansfield |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2017 |
| 77% |
|
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous |
Director, Producer |
- | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vinyl Generation | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Borderline | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Type: 150 Years of the Nation |
Director, Producer |
- | 2015 |
| 91% |
|
Miss Sharon Jones! |
Director, Producer |
$120.8K | 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde | Executive Producer | - | 2013 |
| 60% |
|
Running From Crazy |
Director, Producer |
- | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fight to Live | Director | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Force of Nature |
Director, Producer |
- | 2011 |
| 89% |
|
Shut Up and Sing |
Director, Producer |
$1.2M | 2006 |
| 45% |
|
Havoc | Director | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bearing Witness | Director | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Standoff | Producer | - | 2002 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | My Generation |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2000 |
| 86% |
|
Wild Man Blues |
Director, Sound Recordist |
$526.4K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson | Director | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy | Director | - | 1992 |
| 100% |
|
American Dream | Director | $11.5K | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keeping On | Director | - | 1981 |
| 100% |
|
Harlan County, U.S.A. |
Director, Producer |
- | 1976 |
| 100% |
|
Winter Soldier | Producer | - | 1972 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83% | 74% | The Super Models | Executive Producer | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ReMastered | Director | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 30 for 30 | Director | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hamptons |
Executive Producer, Director |
2002 |