Good site M4M....Pretty much tells the story from a brief look through. The movie used a lot of composite characters and the time line as to who did what to whom was altered to fit some of them and heighten the drramatic effect.

BTW, another "close (not quite as close as Matewan, but close) but no cigar should also go to "Harlan County Wars." tells the tales at a later date....much more fictionalized, but does a good job.

BTW, the worst thing in Harlan County Wars is that it was made outside Toronto. A lot of the scenes in the small frame look pretty good, but in the large frame shots, it looks NOTHING like Harlan or that part of Kentucky.

Spaw