Harlan County, USA  was  directed and produced by Barbara Kopple, She also directed the 1969 festival production, along with Michael Wadleigh. Harlan County and another of her films have the documentary film in common.
Woodstock is a 1970 documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. " 
American Dream is a 1990 "cinma vrit" documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk. 
Michael Wadleigh, also known as Michael Wadley (born September 24, 1942 in Akron, Ohio), is an American film director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, "Woodstock". 
 Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of workers' rights, "Harlan County, U.S.A." is less ambivalent in its attitude toward unions than her later "American Dream", the account of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-86. 
