4:16; U.S.
Director: United Mine Workers of America
Synopsis: Newsreel about the UMW’s fights with the Roosevelt administration during World War II.
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The Brotherhood of Man (1946)
10:36; U.S.
Director: Robert Cannon
Synopsis: An animated short film sponsored by the United Autoworkers which breaks down various racist ideas of difference among peoples. In some ways the presentation will seem awkward to a modern audience, but considering when it was made and the intended audience (rank-and-file white workers), it is an impressive document.
Compliance (2012)
90m; U.S.
Director: Craig Zobel
Cast: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker and Pat Healy
Synopsis: “In the middle of a bad day Sandra (Ann Dowd), the harried manager of a fast-food franchise, receives a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer. He accuses an employee named Becky (Dreama Walker) of theft and instructs Sandra to subject the pretty teenager to a series of humiliations: detain her in the stock room, confiscate her belongings, conduct a strip search and on and on. As the title suggests, at each step of this increasingly elaborate and unnerving hoax, Sandra and Becky do what they are told.”
–‘Compliance’ Raises Questions About Human Behavior; NYT 8/10/2012
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Margaret Haley & Chicago Teachers (2007)
3m; U.S.
Director: American Federation of Teachers
Synopsis: Documentary on Margaret Haley and the origins of American Federation of Teachers in Chicago, circa 1917.
Woodrow Wilson Speaking at Labor Convention (1918?)
6m; U.S.
Synopsis: National Archives footage of Wilson at Labor Convention in Buffalo; footage of Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor.
Ten Dollars an Hour
The story of an African-American cook working at an all-white fraternity house at the University of Mississippi.
Ten Dollars an Hour (Full Movie: 15m)
The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves (2006)
60m; Ireland
Director: Socialist Party of Ireland
Synopsis (Indybay): “The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves” by the Socialist Party of Ireland describes how Turkish workers took on their employer, Turkish-owned multinational construction giant GAMA. Assisted by the Socialist Party (Ireland), whose members first exposed the scandalous wages and conditions being paid by GAMA to its Turkish workers, they engaged in a bitter and hard fought battle, which eventually brought GAMA to heel.
Contact: Full documentary available to view here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8522850390691204183
Them That Work – How Matewan Inspired a State (2009)
3:12; U.S.
Director: Jason Brown
Synopsis: Documentary about John Sayles’s “Matewan.” Features interviews with John Sayles, Chris Cooper, David Straithairn, and others.
Contact: http://www.themthatwork.com/TTW/Home.html
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