11m; Burma
Director:Christine Umali
Synopsis: Forced labor in Burma.
Contact: christine@witness.org 718 783 2000 x.342 (Work)
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Entry Level (2007)
85m; U.S.
Director: Douglas Horn
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Missi Pyle and Cedric Yarbrough
Synopsis: A 38-year old former chef starts all over again when he interviews for entry-level corporate jobs–and can’t get one.
An Equal Opportunity (1982)
13m; U.S.
Director: Caroline Leaf
Synopsis (IMDB): This open-ended drama is designed to trigger discussion on the subject of equal opportunities for women in the workplace and on the role of unions in securing those opportunities and eliminating discriminatory labor practices. Though set within a hospital and focusing on one of several staff women who are denied access to a pharmacy training program despite suitable qualifications, the underlying premises, conflicts, and responses have implications that reach far beyond the hospital walls
Erin Brockovich (2000)
131m; U.S.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
Synopsis: Based on the true story of an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.
Escape to Paradise (2001)
91m; Switzerland
Director: Nino Jacusso
Synopsis: Turkish emigres in Switzerland.
Contact: Distributor: Insert Film Untere Steingrubenstrasse 19 Postfach 106 Solothum/Schweiz, CH-4504 Switzerland Phone: 41-32-625-700 http://www.insertfilm.ch
Estamos Aqui (2005)
10m; U.S.
Director: Insurgen Media
Synopsis: UC Santa Cruz one-day strike of workers and students that shut down the campus.
Eugene Debs and the American Movement (1977)
43m; U.S.
Director: Cambridge Documentary Films
Synopsis: Documentary overview of the struggles of the workers in industry through historic union formations and workers’ political parties as observed in this film of Eugene Debs and heard in his own words as narrated by his friend and comrade Shubert Sebree
Even the Heavens Weep (1985)
55m; U.S.
Synopsis: The story of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, the largest armed labor conflict in American history. TV star Mike Connors narrates this classic story about the long and bloody history of coal in Appalachia.
Contact: Debbie Oleksa West Virginia; Public Broadcasting, Morgantown, 1- 888-596-9729.
Evening with Claude Frazier, M.D. (1993)
27m; U.S.
Synopsis: Dr. Claude Frazier, M.D., is author of “Miners and Medicine: West Virginia Memories,” a personal account of growing up the son of a coal camp doctor and nurse. Frazier describes firsthand the horrific health problems in the coal camps, the resourcefulness of the doctors and nurses, and the struggle to raise health standards in and around the mines. Frazier recalls life in coal camps in Montgomery, Ansted, and Welch, WV. He describes the “ties that bind” in small WV communities. He also describes the responsibilities the coal camp doctor took on and the admiration the miners had for the company doctor.
Contact: WSWP-TV; WVLC
An Evergreen Island
Australia
Director: Fabio Cavadini & Mandy King
Synopsis: globalization; villagers battle for self-determination against copper company & government
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