Director: David Sampliner & Tim Nackashi
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentarians David Sampliner & Tim Nackashi follow three men with odd, potentially unpleasant careers — a bull semen collector, a sewage tank pumper, and an embalmer.
Author Archives: Metro Council
Disaster Chronicles – Mine Disaster (1991)
Cast: Ken Hechler, J. Davitt McAteer, Ben Franklken
Synopsis: 78 miners lost their lives in one of the worst mine disasters in U.S. history, the Farmington, WV. Mine Disaster on Nov. 20, 1968. This documentary investigates the causes and effects of the disaster. Former U.S. Congressman Ken Hechler is one of the people interviewed since he lead the battle in Congress to change federal mine safety regulations. Also interviewed are J. Davitt McAteer of Shepherdstown, the head of the Occupational Health and Safety Center. Ben Franklin, a former New York Times correspondent who covered the disaster, provides some critical assessment. This was a watershed event led Congress to create a tough new mine safety law limiting the amount of coal dust produced in mines for the first time in U.S. history. The new legislation also compensated miners with black lung disease.
Contact: A & E
Discounted Lives (1995)
30m
Director: Will Durst
Synopsis (WordCat): Discusses the difficulties faced by K-Mart warehouse employees during their attempts to organize unions at the Manteno, Illinois and Greensboro, N.C. locations.
Distant Lives (2003)
105m; Germany
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Cast: Andrzej Górak, Anna Yanovskaya and Sergey Frolov
Synopsis (IMDB): This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Russians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a communion dress, and so on
Do Higher Wages Cause Higher Prices? (1957)
15m; U.S.
Director: US Department of Education in association with the AFL-CIO Department of Research
Do It! (1976)
9m; U.S.
Director: Maurer, Fleisher, and Zon
Synopsis: Educational still film with voice-over narration explains why and how to organize a COPE within a union.
Do No Harm (2009)
55m; U.S.
Director: Rebecca Schanberg
Synopsis: Two reluctant whistleblowers in a small Georgia town endure relentless attacks as the struggle to draw national attention to hospital corruption and the plight of the uninsured.
Do They Catch Children Too? (2003)
49m; Israel
Director: Hedva Galili-Smolinsky
Synopsis: Immigrant workers’ children in Israel.
Do U Cry 4 Me Argentina? (2005)
Director: Be youn Suk
Synopsis: Illegal Korean immigrants working in Argentina.
Documentary on the lives of contract workers in cement MNCs in India (2009)
14m; India
Synopsis: Documents the lives of contract workers in the cement industry in India.
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