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Barbara Kopple(born July 30, 1946) is an American film directorknown primarily for her documentarywork. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic french style to a modern American audience. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA(1977), about a Kentuckyminers' strike,[1]and for ...
2 Videos. 25 Photos. Barbara Kopple was born on 30 July 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006). More at IMDbPro.
KOPPLE, Barbara 1946– PERSONAL. Full name, Barbara J. Kopple; born July 30, 1946, in Bear Mountain (some sources cite New York), NY; father, a textile firm owner; mother, a homemaker; married Hart Perry (a director and cinematographer; divorced); married Gene Carroll (a writer and labor organizer); children: (first marriage) Nicholas Perry.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced Tuesday that anchor, journalist and author Wolf Blitzer and director/producer Barbara Kopple are the lifetime achievement...
In Barbara Kopple ’s 40-plus year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, she has won Academy Awards for the seminal 1976 documentary “Harlan County, U.S.A.” a portrait of a...
Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic french style to a modern American audience.
Harlan County U.S.A. Barbara Kopple. (American, born 1946) 1976. 16mm film (color, sound), 103 min. Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County U.S.A. was released at a time when few documentaries made it into mainstream culture. Her film broke that precedent. It documents a community in eastern Kentucky divided by a strike at its coalmine and gets to the ...