Author Archives: Labor Film Database
The Lithuanian Jungle – Upton Sinclair-inspired Documentary
Trailer for “The Lithuanian Jungle”, the documentary feature film from Storytellers International coming in 2011. The film is based on the characters in the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Filmed on location in Chicago and told in a investigative journalism style by filmmakers Randy Richards, Giedrius Subacius and Risé Sanders, this documentary reveals the unknown characters behind the literary classic.
Haymarket Martyrs–Origins of International Workers Day
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-z8ud_9QU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkEl9XzjFc
Sunlight Jr.,
In Laurie Collyer’s “Sunlight Jr.,” Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon play unmarried lovers with no way out of the minimum-wage working class.
http://nyti.ms/1aWuJWt
Inequality For All (2013)
Jacob Kornbluth, 2013, 89 min
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap.
The Caretaker
7:19m
Theo Rigby/Kate McLean
A short documentary explores the tender relationship between a caretaker who is an undocumented immigrant and an elderly woman in the last months of her life.