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Risk/Reward (2003)

26 Apr

88m;

Director: Elizabeth Holder, Xan Parker

Cast: Umber Ahmad, Maria Bartiromo and Roslyn Dickerson 

Synopsis (IMDB): While there have been many movies about Wall Street, there has been little attention given to the specific challenges and stresses of the high-ranking women who work there. Risk/Reward is an insider’s view of the demands and sacrifices that working mothers have in a typically high-powered, male- dominated industry. This film was selected for the 2003 Tribeca, Hot Docs and Full Frame Film Festivals (among others) and will air on the Oxygen network.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Finance, Women

 

RMT: Our Union

26 Apr

35; U.K.

Director: Platform Films

Synopsis: From the inside of the Rail, Maritime and Transportation workers in the UK.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Transportation

 

Rabia (2009)

26 Apr

89m; Mexico

Director: Sebastián Cordero

Synopsis: A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

Contact: Esther Devos edevos@wildbunch.eu

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Construction Trades, Crime-Action, Drama, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Race To The Bottom (2009)

26 Apr

20m; U.S.

Director: Michael Hamm, Jonathan King

Synopsis: This story is about the 2,000 independent truck drivers working at the Port of Oakland, The film gives us a look into the lives of the drivers and their struggles to earn a living wage, support their families, and stay healthy as they do their jobs, transporting goods in and out of the port. It also shows their efforts to build a community coalition to protect their jobs and their health and make their voices heard.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Self-Employed/Freelance, Transportation

 

Raices (1955)

26 Apr

85m; Mexico

Director: Benito Alizraki

Synopsis: Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles’s work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Migrant workers

 

Rail Against Privatization (2005)

26 Apr

60 min; U.K.

Director: Platform Films

Synopsis: British Rail workers fight to end privatization of rail system.

Contact: Link to rail union website: http://www.rmt.org.uk/


 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Public Sector, Transportation

 

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Rail Warning (2005)

26 Apr

43m; Japan

Director: Akira Matsubara & Video Press

Synopsis: Examines the cause of the disastrous Amagasaki rail accident in Osaka, Japan. This train wreck killed over a 100 people and the causes were directly related to the privatization and massive speed-up of railway workers.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health, Transportation

 

Raimunda: A Quebradeira (2007)

26 Apr

 

Director: Marcelo Silva

Synopsis: Raimunda: A Quebradeira is a Brazilian documentary about the women who struggle for survival collecting babaçu nuts in the Amazon. It is an inspiring story of resistance and triumph in the Brazilian forest, where War on Want partner organisztion MIQCB supports the 300,000 women who make their living from the nuts. The film provides a rare and intimate look at this remote community of women, whose ecologically sound way of life is under threat, both from the Brazilian government and big business moving in.

Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Women

 

Raining Stones (1993)

26 Apr

90m; U.K.

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Bruce Jones, Julie Brown and Gemma Phoenix

Synopsis: The story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Working Class

 

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

26 Apr

128m; U.S.

Director: Daniel Petrie

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Ruby Dee

Synopsis (IMDB): Film based on the play by  Lorraine Hansberry.  Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall…

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Blacks, Drama, Working Class

 
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