Matewan (/ˈmeɪtwɒn/) is a 1987 American independent drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James...

The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre) was a shootout in the town of Matewan in Mingo County and the Pocahontas Coalfield mining district...

Matewan (/ˈmeɪtwɒn/) is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek. The population was...

Matewan shootout is re-enacted annually in Matewan, West Virginia. John Sayles dramatized the events of the Matewan shootout in his 1987 film Matewan...

(which notably included the Ludlow Massacre in 1914), and the Battle of Matewan in 1920. The agency was founded in the early 1890s by William Gibbony Baldwin...

early 20th century. Hatfield was police chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan, a shootout that followed a series of evictions carried...

were pro-union. Cabell Testerman, the mayor of the independent town of Matewan was one supporter of the union cause. He appointed 27-year-old Sid Hatfield...

writing and directing the films The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish...

63. He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo...

1920, a dozen Baldwin–Felts detectives, including Lee Felts, arrived in Matewan in Mingo County and connected with Lee's brother Albert Felts. Albert and...

Magnolia Matewan High School was a public high school located in Matewan, West Virginia. The school has been in a succession of four different buildings...

New Jersey. Matawan, or the similarly spelled Mattewan, Matteawan, or Matewan may also refer to: Matawan (or Matavan) Township, a former name of Aberdeen...

The Matewan Historic District encompasses the town center of the rural coal mining community of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan was the scene of the Battle...

Secaucus 7 (1980), and continued acting in multiple films by Sayles, such as Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), City of Hope (1991), Passion Fish (1992)...

film actor. He has appeared in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Creepshow 2 (1987), City of Hope (1991), Passion Fish (1992), Seinfeld...

Man Standing, Fled, Gone in 60 Seconds, I Am Sam, The Sum of All Fears, Matewan, Courage Under Fire, and the 1998 remake of Psycho. He appeared as Fran...

working for Baldwin–Felts in the Great Plains before his assignment in Matewan, West Virginia. Lively was so successful posing as a UMWA activist that...

1987 movie Matewan since it still possesses many of the characteristics of a 1920s Appalachian coal town. The events took place in Matewan, West Virginia...

the independent film Matewan (1987), which dramatized the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the...

Harvey Oswald. His screen roles include City of Hope, Love and a .45, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Mistress, Crocodile Dundee II and Clueless. In the early...

North Matewan is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. North Matewan is located on West Virginia Route 65, 1 mile...

County, USA, a documentary about the Brookside strike in 1972 Matewan, a drama about the Matewan strike in West Virginia, in 1920 Harlan County War at IMDb...

agent to be charged in a homicide. Susan Daniels Smith was born in 1961 in Matewan, West Virginia, to Sidney "Sid" Daniels, an unemployed former coal miner...

Fantasia, Bambi (sequence director) John Sayles: Return of the Secaucus 7, Matewan Franklin J. Schaffner: Planet of the Apes, Patton Ernest B. Schoedsack:...

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John Sayles's film Matewan (1987), a dramatization of the life of Appalachian mining community in the 1920s and the Battle of Matewan. Following this, he...

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again in television and movies. His late 1980s movie appearances were in Matewan, Eight Men Out, K-9, and as club-owner Frank Tilghman in 1989's Road House...

Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for the John Sayles film Matewan (1987), for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. His work...