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And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1995)

U.S.

Director: Severo Pérez

Synopsis (IMDB): Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farmworker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing is awful, sometimes the boss furnishes no water as the hands labor, and TB goes untreated. In good times the pay is $15 a day for adults, half that for children. For a few sordid weeks, his parents leave him in the care of a corrupt couple, he’s expelled from school for hitting back, and he finds solace in a graveyard. As his parents long for their missing son, as folks gather around a local troubadour for songs of romance, comedy, and heartbreak, Marcos observes and remembers.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Themes

Andalucia (2007)

24 Jan

94m; France

Director: Alain Gomis

Cast: Samir Guesmi, Delphine Zingg, Djolof Mbengue, Bass Dhem, Axel Bogousslavsky, Marc Martínez

Synopsis: Algerian man moves to Paris and deals with issues of class, employment, immigration, and poverty.

Contact: 1001 Productions: 44, boulevard Magenta 75010 Paris, Téléphone : (33) 1 47 70 44 70, Fax : (33) 1 40 18 42 49; Email : milleetune@free.fr claude nouchi: claude.colifilms@club-internet.fr 1001 Productions http://www.1001productions.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

Angadi Theru (2010)

24 Jan

148m; India

Director: Vasanthabalan

Synopsis: Jyothi Lingam (Mahesh) is a bright student and son of a mason who leads a happy life in his village near Tirunelveli. One day tragedy strikes as his father the only earning member dies in an accident while crossing an unmanned railway gate and the young boy now has to look after his mother and two sisters. Mahesh, along with hundreds of others, works at the Senthil Murugan Stores run by the big Annachi where 50 to 60 sales boys and girls work in pitiable conditions from early in the morning to late at night, without any rest. He meets Kani (Anjali), a fiery, independent girl. Angadi Theru is about how these two survive in concentration camp-like conditions and what happens when fate smiles cruelly at them. This film is considered to be a milestone in Tamil cinema due its raw content.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Children, Drama, Safety & Health, Working Class

Angel City (1980)

24 Jan

Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Ralph Waite, Paul Winfield, Jennifer Warren, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Ralph Waite stars as the head of a rural mountain family that journeys to south Florida as migrant workers only to find themselves trapped in a squalid labor camp controlled by money-hungry Mitchell Ryan and his two henchmen.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Drama, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Slavery

The Angry Silence (1960)

24 Jan

95m; U.K.

Director: Guy Green

Synopsis: Scab workers in England. No one will talk to the protagnist who is anti-labor and will not walk out with the rest.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

Año Nuevo (1981)

24 Jan

55m

Director: Todd Darling

Synopsis (WorldCat): Describes the living and working conditions of undocumented Mexican agricultural workers at the Año Nuevo flower ranch in San Mateo County, California. Documents the efforts of a group of these workers, fired when they attempted to join a union, to reach a settlement with the Año Nuevo owner through the U.S. legal system. Includes interviews with prominent scholars, attorneys and organizers.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers

Another World is Possible: Impressions of the 2002 World Social Forum

24 Jan

24m; U.S.

Director: Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young

Synopsis: What if 51,000 activists from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to change it?

Contact: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/awip.html

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing

The Apartment (1960)

24 Jan

120m; U.S.

Director: Billy Wilder

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred MacMurray

Synopsis: A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Comedy, White Collar

Appalachia: No Man’s Land (1981)

24 Jan

28m; U.S.

Synopsis: Filmed in Mingo County, WV. and Martin County, Ky, this documentary interviews the natives, organizers, and poets of Appalachia who were directly affected by coal mining in the area. Intereviews are inter cut with the scenes of destruction. Floods, black lung, and uncontrolled strip mining disasters resulted from the activities in the area and huge multinational corporations continue to be primary forces in the area. The postscript lists results of the arc land ownership study just published. Stars Wheeling Jesuit University president Rev. Hacala.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health

Tags: Mining