Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and gun thugs; Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. Union activist and ex-Wobbly Joe Kenehan, sent to help organize the union, determines to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together. Drawn from an actual incident; the characters of Sid Hatfield, Cabell Testerman, C. E. Lively, and Few Clothes Johnson were based on real people.
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Bob Gunton , Chris Cooper , David Strathairn , Frank Hoyt Taylor , Gary McCleery , Gordon Clapp , Ida Williams , Jace Alexander , James Earl Jones , Jo Henderson , Joe Grifasi , John Sayles , Josh Mostel , Ken Jenkins , Kevin Tighe , Maggie Renzi , Mary McDonnell , Michael Mantell , Nancy Mette , Ric Siler , Scott A Martin , Thomas A Carlin , Thomas Hal Phillips , Tom Carlin ,