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matewan
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 277
Land area (2000): 0.503438 sq. miles (1.303898 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.503438 sq. miles (1.303898 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52324
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 37.623034 N, 82.166416 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Matewan
Wikipedia
Matewan is a 1987 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles.
The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Usage examples of "matewan".
True, family legend claimed that Sid Hatfield, the sheriff who led the coal miners in their shoot-out with the company goons at Matewan, had been a distant relative.
Downtown Grantville, like a giant-scale Matewan, had become a death trap for arrogant outsiders.
He has been making good movies (like Matewan, Eight Men Out, City of Hope, and Passion Fish) for fifteen years, and hasn't had a hit yet.