25m; Colombia
Director: Julie Rosenberg
Synopsis: Details Hector Girado, trade unionist, move to US after receiving death sentences.
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Helldrivers
45m; U.S.
Director: Dale Sheldrake
Synopsis: Story of Paul Riddell and the rise and fall of thrill shows. An unusual, vanishing way of life, Paul and his wife Toby roam North America, crashing cars to entertain wide-eyed families, while training their own children to do the same.
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Heroes for Sale (1933)
76m; U.S.
Director: William Wellman
Cast: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess and Aline MacMahon
Synopsis: One of the most thrilling pre-code melodramas, Heroes for Sale follows working class hero Richard Barthelmess as he survives serious injury in WWI, overcomes a morphine addiction, faces unemployment, finds love (with Loretta Young) and a steady job, and tries to stop a vicious strike mob — and that¹s just in the first half! – Rochester Labor Film Series
Hester Street (1975)
90m; U.S.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Cast: Steven Keats, Carol Kane and Mel Howard
Synopsis: It’s 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. He has assimilated to American life, having learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is working at a $12/week job as a seamster, the money earned to be able to bring his wife Gitl and his son Yossele to America from Russia. Regardless, he has fallen in love with another woman, a dancer named Mamie Fein. Nonetheless, he is excited when he learns that Gitl and Yossele are indeed coming to America. His happiness at their arrival is dampened when he sees that Gitl is not “American” looking like Mamie and has troubles assimilating as quickly as he would like. Except to Mamie, he tries to show a public façade that everything is fine at home with Gitl. But can their marriage survive these differences, and if not, will Gitl be able to manage in this new land where she has few supports?
High Hopes (1988)
112m
Director: Mike Leigh
Synopsis (WorldCat): Cyril and Shirley are a young, working-class couple who, in their struggle to make ends meet, have become absorbed in socialism. Cyril’s sister Valerie and her husband aspire to a more privileged class. The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
His Girl Friday (1940)
92m; U.S.
Director: Howard Hawkes
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy
Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Hoffa (1992)
140m; U.S.
Director: Danny Devito
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Armand Assante
Synopsis: A film based on the story of legendary union figure Jimmy Hoffa.
Hoffa: The True Story (1992)
50m; U.S.
Director: Meg M. Kruizenga
Synopsis: Documentary biography of Jimmy Hoffa.
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