30m; U.S.
Director: Bernard Sanders and Nancy Barnett
Synopsis: Biography of Eugene V. Debs and his relation to unionism and American social history.
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
182m; U.S.
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
Synopsis: An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Defying the Law (1997)
47m; Canada
Director: Marta Nielsen-Hastings, David Wesley, Micheal Allder
Synopsis: On July 14, 1946, a group of steelworkers poured out of Hamilton’s Playhouse Theatre and set up pickets around the country’s largest steel mill. Their action sparked one of the most important strikes in our country’s history – a strike which many consider to be the birth of the modern labour movement.
Contact: National Film Board of Canada
http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=33367
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy (2009)
56m; U.S.
Director: Bob Hercules & Bruce Orenstein
Synopsis: Legendary organizer Saul Alinsky led the movement to empower disenfranchised communities through collective actions. Now others have taken up the challenge. The film examines Alinsky’s life and adaptive legacy through work being done by two contemporary “people’s organizations.” Case studies of his work in Rochester and recent IAF organizing work in Texas and Brooklyn.
Demonlover (2002)
129m; Germany
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon and Chloë Sevigny
Synopsis: Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other’s operations.
The Deported (2007)
22m; South Korea
Director: Musgtaque Ahmed
Synopsis: Struggle of Bangladeshi and Nepali workers in South Korea and the effects of the government crackdown on these immigrant workers.
The Deserter (1933)
105m; USSR
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast: Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin and Aleksandr Chistyakov
Synopsis (IMDB): A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country
Desk Set (1957)
103m; U.S.
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Gig Young
Synopsis (IMDB): Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department.
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
62m
Director: Loretta Alper
Synopsis (Media Education Foundation): Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television’s beginnings to today’s sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.
Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV’s disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants — stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy. :
Website: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=411
The Detroit Model (1980)
45m; U.S.
Director: Alan Levin
Synopsis: Study of the decline of the US auto industry in the 1970s and early 80s.
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