20m; Argentina
Director: Grupo Alavio & MarieTrigona
Synopsis: Documents the efforts by Buenos Aires transit workers to re-introduce the 6 hour day after the military dictatorship had destroyed the labor conditions.
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Fortune Lane (1947)
60m; U.K.
Director: John Baxter
Synopsis (IMDB): Young Peter wants so badly to be an engineer that he starts to work on an invention. To raise money, he and his friend Tim wash windows. However, Tim needs the money they earn to go to Ireland to visit his grandfather who is very ill, so Peter gives him all the money they have made. Everything works out well for Peter in the end when he is praised as a young genius
The Fountainhead (1949)
114m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
Synopsis (IMDB): An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards. Based on the Ayn Rand novel.
Fourth Battle of Winchester (1957)
16m; U.S.
Synopsis: Describes the circumstances which caused over 400 workers at the O’Sullivan Rubber Company in Winchester, VA, to strike on 5/13/56 to preserve their union.
Free Cinema [Short Film Collection] (1950s-60s)
Synopsis (BFI): The BFI has compiled for the first time, the definitive collection of films from the 1950s’ Free Cinema movement. Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary making, but this highly influential period in the country’s cinema history was the precursor for the better known British New Wave of social-realist films in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The films were ‘free’ in the sense that they were made outside the framework of the film industry, and that their statements were entirely personal . They had in common not only the conditions of their production (shoestring budget, unpaid crew) and the equipment they employed (usually hand-held 16mm Bolex cameras), but also a style and attitude and an experimental approach to sound. Mostly funded by the BFI’s Experimental Film Fund, they featured ordinary, mostly working-class people at work and play, displaying a rare sympathy and respect, and a self-consciously poetic style.
Website: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_150.html
Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980)
60m; U.S.
Director: Steven Fischler & Joel Sucher
Synopsis: Documentary of the Jewish Anarchists in the New York garment industry and their newspaper the Freie Arberiter Stimme.
Freedom Road (1979)
186m; U.S.
Director: Ján Kadár
Cast: Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson and Ron O’Neal
Synopsis: Based on the Howard Fast novel, this miniseries tells the story of ex-slave Gideon Young’s trip from freemen to Senator and in doing so tells the stories of the hopes of Reconstruction and its fall.
Freedom Song (2000)
150m; U.S.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon and Vondie Curtis-Hall
Synopsis: HBO film based on the organizing of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in McComb, Mississippi and highlights the role of young people in the work
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
105m; U.S.
Director: Connie Field & Marilyn Mulford
Synopsis: Documentary about the civil rights movement, focusing on the Mississippi Freedom Summer voter registration project.
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