Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director primarily known for her work in documentary film. She has won two Academy Awards; the first was in 1976, for Harlan County, USA about a Kentucky miners' strike, and the second was in 1991, for American Dream, the story of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-1986. July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Harlan County, USA is a 1976 documentary film documenting the efforts of 180 coal-miners on strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1974. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Genre- Documentary Director-Barbara Kopple Awards- Academy Award, Best Documentary film, 1990 American Dream is a documentary film which centers around union meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-1986. ... Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) is probably best known as the producer of SPAM luncheon meat. ... Interstate 90 Business Loop (Oakland Avenue) runs through the center of Austin. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She has also directed episodes of the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz. Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Oz is the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ...

Kopple also made documentaries on Mike Tyson, Gregory Peck and Woody Allen. Michael Gerard Tyson, (born June 30, 1966) is a former American World Heavyweight boxing Champion. ... Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ...

Her first non-documentary feature film, Havoc, released straight to DVD in 2005, starred Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips as wealthy suburbanites who venture into East Los Angeles Latino gang territory. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American film and stage actress. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... East Los Angeles, California (unincorporated community) East Los Angeles (region) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Kopple has recently ventured into advertising work that includes documentary-style commercials for Target Stores. Target Stores is a division of Target Corporation. ...

She was also among the 19 filmmakers who worked together anonymously (under the rubric Winterfilm Collective) to produce the film Winter Soldier, an anti-war documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation. She has also done films for The Working Group, directing the 30-minute short documentary "Locked Out in America: Voices From Ravenswood" for the We Do the Work series. (We Do the Work aired in the mid1990s on the "P.O.V." television series on PBS, and Kopple's segment was based on the book Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.) The Winterfilm Collective consisted of: Fred Aranow, Nancy Baker, Joe Bangert, Rhetta Barron, Robert Fiore, David Gillis, David Grubin, Jeff Holstein, Barbara Jarvis, Al Kaupas, Barbara Kopple, Mark Lenix, Michael Lesser, Nancy Miller, Lee Osborne, Lucy Massie Phenix, Roger Phenix, Benay Rubenstein, and Michael Weil. ... This movie is a natural, stark, personal, and emotional portrayal of Vietnam soldiers who returned to the United States in the 1960s. ... The Winter Soldier Investigation was a media event intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War, while showing their direct relationship to military leadership and the foreign and anti-Communist policies of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... P.O.V. (a cinema term for point of view) is televisions longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ...

In the fall of 2006, she released a documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing about the Dixie Chicks post-Bush controversy. The Dixie Chicks are a thirteen-time Grammy Award-winning female country music/rock music trio from the United States comprising Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

External link

• Barbara Kopple at the Internet Movie Database
• The Working Group