16m; U.S.
Director: Encyclopedia Brittanica Educational Corporation
Synopsis: An analysis of some of the implications of automation in a mass-production factory. The film points out that automation can free the worker but it poses a challenge to retrain and adjust to changing circumstances.
58m; U.S.
Director: Harold Mayer and Lynne Rhodes Mayer
Synopsis: The Inheritance shows what life was really like for immigrants and working Americans from the turn of the century through the fight for civil rights in the 1960s. This stirring history of our country shows their struggle to put down roots, form labor unions, survive wars, and finally, create a new and better life for themselves and our nation.
Our film explores a landscape largely unknown to the present generation—the dim sweatshops, coal mines and textile mills filled with children; the anxious years of the depression and labor’s bloody struggle for the right to organize; the battlefields of WW I and II; the seldom seen newsreel footage of the Memorial Day massacre at The Republic Steel strike in Chicago; the civil rights struggle— as every generation fights again to preserve and extend its freedoms. This is the film’s theme.
Contact: The film is available in 4 parts on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWDPHQX0S0w
Harold Mayer and Lynne Rhodes Mayer
Harold Mayer Productions
New Milford, CT
20m; Colombia
Director: Juan Alonso Mejia and Juan Bernardo Rosado
Synopsis: Workers in Colombia organize
19m; U.S.
Synopsis: Dramatizes, through a single case study, a structure and function of job training programs in urban minority areas. Follows the partial success of George, an unemployed black man, who turns to job training to support his family. Focuses on George’s success at finding a good job because of his training and the dilemma he faces when he is laid off.
Contact: Film is available to be streamed here: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vss/view.do?videoId=VAC2537
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Synopsis: ” Feature-length documentary about the juvenile justice system in Washington D.C.”
60m; Israel
Director: Ayelet Bargur
Synopsis: What happens when globalization — in the form of high-tech giant Intel — comes to a small, remote community in southern Israel?
Contact: Ayelet Bargur, eyelet6@013.net 971-3-6041225; 972-52-2204734
106m; Turkey
Director: Muharrem Gulmez & Sirri Sureyya Onder
Cast: Cezmi Baskin, Özgü Namal and Umut Kurt
Synopsis: One of the most popular films in Turkey about military rule and resistance.
163m; U.S.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Synopsis (IMDB): The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
117m; U.S.
Director: Peter Jones, Mark A. Catalena
Synopsis: By tracing the history of the Chandler family that founded the Los Angeles Times, this 116-minute PBS documentary also tells important parts of the history of southern California, including decades of fierce anti-union campaigns and manipulation of politicians and public resources for personal gain. The film also describes internal battles between ultraconservative and relatively liberal family members that led to the paper’s rapid decline.
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