30m; U.S.
Director: Barbara Kopple
Synopsis: Documentary examines lockout at the dispute between the Ravenswood Aluminum Company and Local 5668 of the United Steelworkers in Ravenswood, WV.
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Lockout (2007)
56m; Australia
Director: Jason van Genderen
Synopsis: Story of the 1929 Australian mineworker lockout, aka the Rothbury Riots, that country’s most violent industrial conflict.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
104m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay and Avis Bunnage
Synopsis: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor’s prize runner.
Long Distance Love (2009)
77m; Russia
Director: Magnus Gertten, Elin Jönsson
Synopsis: Kyrgyzstan today: Just married Alisher (18y) has to leave his pregnant wife Dildora (17y) to work in Russia, 3.500 km from home. He’s one of the 12-16 million Russian guest workers, who are forced to leave their countries and work, mostly illegally, under harsh conditions in low-paid jobs in order to support their families. After eight months of hardship in Moscow, Alisher decides to return to his young family, although he has failed to earn enough money to provide for them. This is a love story clouded by migration and modern slavery.
Long Road Home (1991)
Synopsis: The struggles of California immigrant workers and labor agitators against their employers.
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Directed by John Ford
Features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson,John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond
The film tells the story of the crew aboard an English cargo ship named the SS Glencairn,during World War II, on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The ship carries a cargo of high-explosives.
The Long Walk Home (1990)
97m; U.S.
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg and Dwight Schultz
Synopsis (IMDB): Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Look Back in Anger (1959)
98m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure
Synopsis (IMDB): A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Looks and Smiles (1981)
104m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson and Tony Pitts
Synopsis: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?
Los Bastardos (2008)
86m; Mexico
Director: Amat Escalante
Cast: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa and Nina Zavarin
Synopsis: Pulp crime and cinematic formalism collide in this hauntingly visceral portrait of two Mexican day laborers moved to desperate deeds in a hellish contemporary Los Angeles. Host University of Guadalajara Foundation.
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