24m; Nepal
Director: Manoj Raj Pandey
Synopsis: Documentary about one of the marginalized group of people who have been living and working on the bank of Narayani River in Nepal for generations. After the National park was established they were deprived of fishing, discontinuing their traditional livelihood.
Contact: Ramesh Badal Secretary-DFA DFA
25m; U.S.
Director: Georgetown Solidarity Committee
Synopsis: Documentary chronicling the 5 year campaign of Georgetown campus workers and students to win a living wage for many campus workers, including the 2005 10-day hunger strike which won a historic living wage policy. Documentary is intended in part to help inspire and educate other students to organize similar campaigns on their campuses.
Contact: View the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRaJvyDzo0
There are 2 versions: a 60 minute one with narration and a 90 minute one without; U.S.
Director: Joan Sekler
Synopsis: David and Goliath story of how 560 unionized (ILWU) miners in the desert town of Boron, California stood up to their employer Rio Tinto, a giant multinational mining company, and won a decent contract after being locked out of their jobs for 107 days and replaced by scabs.
Contact: http://www.lockedout2010.org/index.html
30m; U.S.
Director: Barbara Kopple
Synopsis: Documentary examines lockout at the dispute between the Ravenswood Aluminum Company and Local 5668 of the United Steelworkers in Ravenswood, WV.
56m; Australia
Director: Jason van Genderen
Synopsis: Story of the 1929 Australian mineworker lockout, aka the Rothbury Riots, that country’s most violent industrial conflict.
Contact: greg@lockout.tv 61 413 017 771 (Cell)
104m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay and Avis Bunnage
Synopsis: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor’s prize runner.
77m; Russia
Director: Magnus Gertten, Elin Jönsson
Synopsis: Kyrgyzstan today: Just married Alisher (18y) has to leave his pregnant wife Dildora (17y) to work in Russia, 3.500 km from home. He’s one of the 12-16 million Russian guest workers, who are forced to leave their countries and work, mostly illegally, under harsh conditions in low-paid jobs in order to support their families. After eight months of hardship in Moscow, Alisher decides to return to his young family, although he has failed to earn enough money to provide for them. This is a love story clouded by migration and modern slavery.
Synopsis: The struggles of California immigrant workers and labor agitators against their employers.
Directed by John Ford
Features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson,John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond
The film tells the story of the crew aboard an English cargo ship named the SS Glencairn,during World War II, on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The ship carries a cargo of high-explosives.
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