Matewan

Release Date: August 28, 1987

Running Time: 135 min

Rating: PG-13

Director: John Sayles

Producer: Peggy Rajski, Maggie Renzi

Writer: John Sayles

Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham

Synopsis: A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.