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The Men Who Would Conquer China (2004)

58m; US
Directors: Nick Torrens and Jane St. Vincent Welch

For 4,000 years China largely succeeded, both culturally and economically, in keeping the rest of the world at bay. Following its introduction of reforms in the 1980’s, however, including a transition from a socialist to a market economy, China allowed multinational corporations to set up shop. Now that the world’s most populous nation is clearly on a fast track to capitalism, American investors are eagerly exploring ways to exploit China’s new ‘economic miracle.’

Icarus Films

 

The Men of the Deeps (2002)

60m; U.S.

Director: John Walker

Synopsis: Canadian Coal Miners whose livelihood has been lost

 
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Metal of Honor (2006)

Synopsis: Ironworkers at Ground Zero after 9/11

 

Metropolis (1926)

There are several versions the film with different running times from 90 to 153m; Germany

Director: Fritz Lang

Synopsis (IMDB): In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

 

 

Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti: Walt Disney and the Science of Exploitation (1996)

U.S.

Director: National Labor Committee

Synopsis: An exposé on how Disney treats its workers in Haiti.

Contact: View the documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OXhtgHBxk

 

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

117m; U.S.

Director: Robert Redford

Cast: Rubén BladesRichard Bradford and Sonia Braga

Synopsis (IMDB): In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, the local people support him because of their resentment of water use laws that favor the rich like Devine. When the Governor sends in ruthless troubleshooter Kyril Montana to settle things quickly before the lucrative development is cancelled, a small war threatens to erupt.

 

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter (1982)

58m; U.S.

Director: Jack Santino, Paul R. Wagner

Synopsis: Black working-class mobility

 

Mighty Times: The Children’s March (2004)

40m; U.S.

Director: Robert Houston

Synopsis: About young people organizing in Birmingham, Alabama when the elders were encouraging slowing down civil rights organizing.

 
 

Millions of Us (1936)

20m; U.S.

Director: American Labor Productions

Synopsis: Scab turned unionist advocate

 

Mills of the Gods (1934)

66m; U.S.

Director: Roy William Neill

Synopsis: With the family plow factory on the verge of going belly up, matriarch May Robson finds her trust fund kids just don’t give a darn, but as rioting workers battle police, granddaughter Fay Wray finds solidarity and love with union leader Victor Jory.