58m; U.S.
Director: John Gianvito
Synopsis: Using Howard Zinn’s A People¹s History of the United States as a basis, filmmaker Gianvito crafts an elegant and elegiac chronicle of the progressive movement in America by visiting cemeteries, plaques, and monuments. Told without narration, Gianvito pays homage to those who fought for their beliefs and who have been forgotten by popular history.
20m; U.S.
Director: Encyclopedia Brittanica Educational Corporation
Synopsis: An overview of the social contrasts in American life from the Gilded Age through WWI, with comparisons to the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement
20m; U.S.
Director: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Synopsis: Traces the progressive movement from its beginning in 1890 through WWI. Notes that it was a revolt of the American conscience in the cities and on the state and federal levels corruption, poverty, prejudice and other social evils.
53m; U.S.
Director: Donald Hyatt
Synopsis: A record of America changing from a rural to an industrialized society. Highlighting major events in national life through 1917.
57m; U.S.
Director: Ginny Durrin
Cast: Martin Sheen, Mitch Snyder
Synopsis: Documentary about the work of homeless advocate Mitch Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence during the 1980s in response to rising homelessness and federal housing cuts.
14m; U.S.
Director: Mimi Pickering
Synopsis: Mimi Pickering of Appalshop was hired to direct a film about the proposed pulp mill to be built at Apple Grove, Mason County. The Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation paid for the film that explores the dangers that the pulp mill would present – to the workers and the local environment including dumping dioxin into the Ohio River. Many groups, both labor and environmental, opposed the mill, supported by Gov. Caperton and the Legislature. Eventually, the mill was not built. The film also examines the impact that the company’s pulp mill had in the area around Monroe, AL. The film was broadcast on WV television several times. See Doug Hawes-Davis’ film,” Green Rolling Hills” and “Southbound” from High Plains Films. Access: Steve Fesenmaier, WVLC
90m; Mexico-U.S.S.R.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Synopsis: Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
Director: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government.
57m; Netherlands
Director: Sven Jense
Synopsis: Documentary about African immigrants coming to work in Europe – if they make it. Sven Jense reversed their route, traveling from Amsterdam to Mali, West Africa. On his way he meets with different migrants, from a mother in Paris to a construction engineer who never made it. Sven Jense is a filmmaker who has his roots in theatre and political science. REplace is his first documentary. THEME: Migrant workers
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