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Amazon, UPS Workers Star In Barbara Kopple's 'Union Town' Documentary

Barbara Kopple tracks organizers and delivery workers as union participation has fallen by about half over four decades, according to the film.

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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.S.A., about a long running strike at a coal mine in southeast Kentucky, and it was immediately hailed as brilliant, earning Kopple an Academy Awar…

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Deadline broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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