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Matewan is a 1987 American historical drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. The independent film dramatizes the events of the 1920 Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in the small town of Matewan in the Appalachian countryside of Mingo County, West…
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