18m; U.S.
Director: Alex Ivany
Synopsis: The legacy of Cesar Chavez and the union movement he inspired.
Contact: alex@sandraivany.com
Author Archives: Metro Council
La Moitie Gauche du Frigo (2000)
90 min
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Synopsis: (New York Times): A documentary filmmaker and his subject find themselves at odds in this dark comedy from Canada. A mechanical engineer who has lost his job is trying to decide what to do with himself now that he needs to find a job. An actor who is looking to break into filmmaking hears of his predicament and asks to make a film about his life, following him with a camera until he can land a job.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/230253/La-Moitie-gauche-du-frigo/overview
La Promesse
92m; Belgium
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast: Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet and Assita Ouedraogo
Synopsis: Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally (among other scams). But when the building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured Amidou that ultimately exposes the different values of Igor and Roger, and of Amidou’s wife, Assita.
La Terra Trema (1948)
160m; Italy
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli and Antonio Arcidiacono
Synopsis: In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
La otra frontera (The other border) [2001]
25m; Spain
Director: doia Alustiza / Joaquim Martinez / Pablo Tulin
Synopsis: Immigrant workers
Labor Battles the WTO (1999)
40m; U.S.
Director: Steve Zeltzer
Synopsis: Unions’ participation in the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999.
Contact: View here: http://blip.tv/laborvideo/labor-battles-the-wto-seattle-1999-2642482
The Labor Movement: Beginnings and Growth in America (1959)
14m; U.S.
Director: Coronet Films
Synopsis: Developments in labor’s organization in the US from 1873 through the merger of the AFL and CIO. The role played by Samuel Gompers, the Knights of Labor and the AFL-CIO are traced.
Labor in the Mountains (2005)
55m; U.S.
Synopsis: A grandfather recounts the history of labor unions in West Virginia to his granddaughter. His story spans from the civil war era to the current labor movement in the state. Labor Union; West Virginia; Civil War labor movement; Great Uprising; General Strike; United Mine Workers of America; UMW; United Steel Workers.
Contact: Available as VHS or DVD, $5 from Labor in the Mountains Foundation, ILSR/WVU, 719 Knapp Hall, Morgantown WV 26506. Telephone: (304) 293-3323 Toll Free: 1-800-499-0486 Fax: (304) 293-3395
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