Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple On ‘Union Town,’ Her Third Towering Film On American Labor – Camden Film Festival

Fifty years ago, a young director named Barbara Kopple came out with her first film, a documentary she thought would be little seen.

“When I started making the film, I thought, ‘Oh, my parents will see it and their friends and maybe a museum will show it,’” she recalls.

That film was Harlan County U