Harlan County, USA published in 1976, is a 104 minutes documentary film. It is about the 1974 strike of miners who worked at the Brookside mine in Kentucky. There were many miners, their wives, and children in this film. The miners and supporters wanted to join a union called the, United Mining Workers (UMW). The miners and their families were not being respected, and treated fairly. A lot of the miner’s health went down, they got the Black Lung Disease, and they weren’t being paid well for the amount of work they do, and the dangers to their well-being. Miners, their families, and supporters went on strikes, also known as the Picket Line. A lot of them got injured, and died as a result. In this film some of the things I saw were, how the mining system worked, a miner eating a snack underground, a daughter talking about how most of the conversations at the dinner table were about joining the union, and how she had to watch her father die from the Black Lung Disease. The songs in this film had a lot of meaning to them; most of them were about the miners, the union, and the disease. The women in this film not only were they taking care of the children, their family and chores, they were also taking actions in supporting the union and strikes. The women were interested in what their husbands were doing; they were willing to participate, and their concerns for their safety. There were a lot of strong, brave, women leading union conferences, and planning out strikes. It is really messed up how the miners were basically told to keep working until there is something wrong with their health. I remember in this film they showed from an autopsy a lung that suffered the disease, and when he rubbed it, it turned into paper flakes.