U.S.
Director: National Labor Committee
Synopsis: An exposé on how Disney treats its workers in Haiti.
Contact: View the documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OXhtgHBxk
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The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
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.
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter (1982)
58m; U.S.
Director: Jack Santino, Paul R. Wagner
Synopsis: Black working-class mobility
Mighty Times: The Children’s March (2004)
40m; U.S.
Director: Robert Houston
Synopsis: About young people organizing in Birmingham, Alabama when the elders were encouraging slowing down civil rights organizing.
Mine (2009)
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
A Miner’s Tale
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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