Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing is a 2006 American documentary film about the Dixie Chicks controversy, produced and directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck.
Theatrical release poster
Entertainment Weekly magazine cover used in promotional video
Promotional poster used in the US
Barbara Kopple is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic french style to a modern American audience. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA (1977), about a Kentucky miners' strike, and for American Dream (1991), the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota, making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category.
Kopple at the May 2015 Montclair Film Festival
Barbara Kopple interviewed by Paul Mariano for These Amazing Shadows