American documentary filmmaker born 1946, known for immersive, long-form nonfiction filmmaking. Her 1976 film Harlan County, USA, chronicling a Kentucky coal miners' strike, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature.
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Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work.
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She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993), and directed episodes of television drama series such as the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1999) and the HBO prison drama series Oz (1999), winning a Directors Guild of America award for the former.
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