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name: "Mirra Bank"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mirra-bank"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
updated: "2026-09-17T04:48:52.240384+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mirra Bank

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1970–1976
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62021866, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052045/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/230976

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Harlan County U.S.A.*](https://film.one/film/harlan-county-u-s-a.md) (88)

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## Biography

Mirra Bank is an American director, producer and editor. She edited the Academy Award-winning documentary *Harlan County U.S.A.* (1976) directed by Barbara Kopple, and has directed feature-length works including the short *Yudie* (1974), *Enormous Changes at the Last Minute* (1983), which premiered at Sundance, *Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West* (1995), *Last Dance* (2002) and *The Only Real Game* (2013).

Her films have screened at festivals worldwide including Sundance, Toronto and the New York Film Festival. *Last Dance* was short-listed for an Academy Award. Bank has received production support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a past president of New York Women in Film and Television, a MacDowell Fellow and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

*Sources: imdb.com, mirrabankfilms.com, cinemafemme.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Harlan County U.S.A.* (1976), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/harlan-county-u-s-a.md)
- *Gimme Shelter* (1970), Fi1m 78, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/gimme-shelter.md)

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