15m; U.S.
Synopsis: A dramatized incident in an industrial plant is used in showing how grievance hearings enable representatives of labor unions and management to arrive at compromises in the settlement of disputes.
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A Grin Without a Cat (Le Fond de l’air est rouge) (1977)
240m; France
Synopsis (Wikipedia): The film features many interviews with French communist leaders, students, and sociologists. The Prague Spring of 1968 is featured, with footage of a Fidel Castro speech in which he expresses political support for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia while questioning the legality of the action. Other sections deal with the rise of Salvador Allende and the Watergate Scandal in the United States. There are many subtle references to cats throughout the film, as well as brief shots of raccoons.
Grosse Point Blank (1997)
107m; U.S.
Director: George Armitage
Cast: John Cusack, Minnie Driver and Dan Aykroyd
Synopsis: Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time. Meanwhile, another hitman (Dan Ackroyd) attempts to form a union of assassins.
Gung Ho (1986)
112m; U.S.
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe and George Wendt
Synopsis (IMDB): When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
HERstory – Jeritan (2009)
74m
Director: Cecilia Ho Wing Yin
Synopsis (CLiFF): A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting mainly of Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
Hillbilly – The Real Story (2007)
120m; U.S.
Director: David Moore Huntley
Cast: Billy Ray Cyrus
Synopsis: Generally, it brings America’s mythic and misunderstood southern mountain people to life and reveal their pivotal but unsung role in forming the nation and forging the American character. It discusses the largest civil insurrection since the Civil War — the Battle for Blair Mountain in the violent West Virginia coalfields in 1921, when a self-proclaimed Redneck Army of 10,000 coal miners fought for their right to organize.
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Homebound (Balikbayan) [2003]
5m
Directors: Larilyn Sanchez, Riza Manalo
Synopsis (IFFR): A woman who works outside the Philippines to earn money for her family sees herself forced to send her mother back home alone. She can’t pay for her own journey, but as compensation she gives her mother gifts from the rich world.
Haiku Tunnel (2001)
88m; U.S.
Director: Jacob Kornbluth, Josh Kornbluth
Cast: Josh Kornbluth, Warren Keith and Sarah Overman
Synopsis: Josh has an offer to “go perm” at his employer and the first task is to mail 17 high priority letters….something that seems a little difficult to do.
Haiti’s Tourniquet (2008)
19m; U.S.
Director: Diane Krauthamer
Synopsis: The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against “le plan neoliberal” and recruit help in the form of material aid and solidarity. The delegation was in Haiti April 24 to May 5 2008, two weeks after the country erupted in mass protest at burgeoning food prices. This video shares the stories and experiences
Half Slave, Half Free (1984)
113m; U.S.
Director: Gordon Parks, Sr.
Synopsis (WorldCat): Based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
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