Editing Harlan, Kentucky (section)

==Media==
''[http://www.harlandaily.com The Harlan Daily Enterprise]'' newspaper is published Monday through Saturday. Radio stations serving Harlan are [[WHLN]] (adult contemporary, 1410 AM), [[WFSR]] (gospel, 970 AM) and [[WTUK (FM)|WTUK]] (country, 105.1 FM).

Some storylines of the [[FX Networks]] drama ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'' take place in Harlan, although no scenes have been filmed there. The 2012–13 [[National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)|National Geographic]] series ''Kentucky Justice'' which followed the Harlan County Sheriff's Office in their daily duties was filmed in Harlan and Harlan County. Parts of the [[OxyContin]] scandal series “[[Dopesick (miniseries)|Dopesick]]” also take part in Harlan County.

Harlan serves as the starting point for the Mountain Boy's fatal moonshine run in [[Robert Mitchum]]'s ''[[The Ballad of Thunder Road]]'' (1958).  The song serves as the theme for the 1958 film of the same title with Mitchum starring as the mountain boy protagonist, Lucas Doolin.

Harlan was also featured in the [[Darrell Scott]] song "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" (later performed by [[Brad Paisley]], [[Patty Loveless]] and in 2019 by [[Montgomery Gentry]] on the CD "Outskirts"), the [[Steve Earle]] song "Harlan Man", the [[Anna McGarrigle]] song "Goin' Back to Harlan" (notably covered by [[Emmylou Harris]]), the song "Harlan County Line" from [[Dave Alvin]], and the [[Tyler Childers]] song “Harlan Road”.

''[[Harlan County, USA]]'' is a documentary about the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County in June 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between company personnel and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. It won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1977. This is one of the reasons it is called "Bloody Harlan".