40m; Australia
Director: John Loh
Synopsis: A documentary exposing the activity of an industrial inquisition targeting building workers across Australia. “Constructing Fear” shows how these workers are the front line in an attack on civil liberties that has implications for every Australian.
Contact: http://www.constructingfear.com.au/
45m
Director: Larry Edelman
Synopsis: Show how pursuit of profit leads multinational corporations to hunt out ‘investment opportunities’ in low-wage countries and in the process promote US imperialism.
40m; U.S.
Director: Hearst Metroone News
Synopsis: Conversation between AFL-CIO head George Meany and Lyndon B. Johnson intended for use in Johnson’s 1968 Presidential election campaign, but never released.
100m; U.S.
Director: Sam Peckinpath
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw and Ernest Borgnine
Synopsis: Truckers form a mile long “convoy” in support of a trucker’s vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
104m; Canada
Director: Dilip Mehta
Cast: Seema Biswas, Don McKellar and Lisa Ray
Synopsis: An unsuspecting Canadian couple in the Diplomatic Service posted in New Delhi & inherit a household headed by the wily & inspiring cook Stella.
105m; U.S.
Synopsis: Horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
115m; U.S.
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat’s School. One of her students Morgan Evans turns from bully to brilliant student.
94m; U.S.
Director: George Cuckor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor and Bill Fraser
Synopsis: A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
10m; U.S.
Director: Samantha Davidson Green
Synopsis: Wealthy Beverly Hills socialite hired two Mexican day-workers to move a couch
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