It takes more than guns to kill a man.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
John Sayles
Director, Writer
Chris Cooper
Joe Kenehan
James Earl Jones
'Few Clothes' Johnson
Mary McDonnell
Elma Radnor
Will Oldham
Danny Radnor
David Strathairn
Police Chief Sid Hatfield
Ken Jenkins
Sephus Purcell
Kevin Tighe
Bill Hickey
Gordon Clapp
Tom Griggs
Bob Gunton
C.E. Lively
Glory75%
Pale Rider71%
Free State of Jones67%
The Patriot72%
Rosewood65%
The Devil All the Time71%
The Burial70%
Black Mass65%
Emancipation77%
The Birth of a Nation59%
Gangs of New York73%
Old Henry72%
The Alto Knights62%
Miller's Crossing74%
12 Years a Slave79%
The Woman King75%
The Birth of a Nation65%
Defiance68%
Hoffa63%
Django Unchained81%
