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The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

20 Apr

117m; U.S.

Director: Robert Redford

Cast: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford and Sonia Braga

Synopsis (IMDB): In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, the local people support him because of their resentment of water use laws that favor the rich like Devine. When the Governor sends in ruthless troubleshooter Kyril Montana to settle things quickly before the lucrative development is cancelled, a small war threatens to erupt.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Construction Trades, Drama, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter (1982)

20 Apr

58m; U.S.

Director: Jack Santino, Paul R. Wagner

Synopsis: Black working-class mobility

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Blacks, Documentary, Service Workers, Transportation

 

Metropolis (1926)

20 Apr

There are several versions the film with different running times from 90 to 153m; Germany

Director: Fritz Lang

Synopsis (IMDB): In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

 

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Classic, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, SciFi, Working Class

 

Mighty Times: The Children’s March (2004)

20 Apr

40m; U.S.

Director: Robert Houston

Synopsis: About young people organizing in Birmingham, Alabama when the elders were encouraging slowing down civil rights organizing.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Blacks, Children, Documentary, Organizing

 

Millions of Us (1936)

20 Apr

20m; U.S.

Director: American Labor Productions

Synopsis: Scab turned unionist advocate

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Organizing

 

Mills of the Gods (1934)

20 Apr

66m; U.S.

Director: Roy William Neill

Synopsis: With the family plow factory on the verge of going belly up, matriarch May Robson finds her trust fund kids just don’t give a darn, but as rioting workers battle police, granddaughter Fay Wray finds solidarity and love with union leader Victor Jory.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Drama, Organizing, Romance, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Mine Wars (2004)

20 Apr

55m; U.S.

Director: Bill Richardson

Synopsis: Bill Richardson tells of the coal miners’ war for freedom through the use of film, telling this powerful and important story in the context of U.S. history. The critically acclaimed feature film uses over 800 vintage photos and music of the era to convey a sense of time and place.

Contact: Bill Richardson 29 Skyview Drive, Apt. #1, Belfry, KY 41514; e-mail brichard@wvu.edu.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, War, Working Class

 

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Mine (2009)

20 Apr

120m; U.S.

Director: Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin

Synopsis: MINE follows several members of a community in Eastern Kentucky as their community and landscape begins to change dramatically through mining.

Contact: c/o BAVC, 2727 Mariposa, 2nd Floor San Francisco, California 94110 (415) 558-2121 http://minedocumentary.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

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Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986)

20 Apr

28m; U.S.

Director: Anne Lewis

Synopsis: The documentary of the strike of the UMWA coal miners against the A.T. Massey Co., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and the Flour Corp. This is an intimate look at both workers and strikebreakers. This area of WV is where mine wars have been fought since the 1920’s.

Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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A Miner’s Tale

20 Apr

38m; South Africa

Director: Rehad Desi

Synopsis: Coal miners in South Africa. What are the conditions of miners in South Africa from Zimbabwe? How do these miners explain AIDS and how do they try to cope with this devastating health care crisis? This film looks at the AIDS crisis from the lives of Zimbabwe miners who must work in South Africa to help their families. After leaving the mines with AIDS and returning home they must try to educate their wives and their families that their lives have forever changed.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary

 

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