4m; U.S.
Director: Robert Greenwald
Synopsis: Fast food chain is owned by Goldman Sachs. CEO is paid 360 times more than the workers.
Contact: Brave New Films / 10510 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 info@bravenewfilms.org
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Buffalo Creek Flood and Buffalo Creek Revisited (1984)
31m; U.S.
Director: Mimi Pickering
Synopsis: Appalshop filmmaker Mimi Pickering returns to Buffalo Creek, West Virginia to look at the recovery of the community after one of the worst coal mine-related disasters in history. Ken Hechler, then a U.S. Congressman from WV, but not that district, is interviewed in the office of WVLC Film Services. From the film’s website – Filmed ten years after the flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region’s land and resources. Through the statements of survivors, planners, politicians, psychologists, and community activists, the film explores the psychology of disaster, the importance of community, and the paradox of a poor people living in a rich land.
Burning Rage (1984)
120m; U.S.
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Barbara Mandrell, Tom Wopat and Bert Remsen
Synopsis: While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
The Burning Season (1994)
123m; U.S.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Synopsis: This film is based on the life story of Brazilian rubber tapper, environmentalist, and union leader Chico Mendes who led a movement of indigenous rubber tappers in the Brazilian Amazon in struggle against powerful Brazilian rancher interests and multinational corporations and institutions.
Bubble (2005)
73m; U.S.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
Brothers on the Line (2012)
A stirring portrait of the lives and legacy of the Reuther Brothers -Walter, Roy and Victor, pioneering labor leaders under the banner of the United Auto Workers Union. Directed by Victor’s grandson, Sasha Reuther and narrated by Martin Sheen, the film follows the brothers as they rise from militant shop-floor organizers to visionary statesmen in collective bargaining, civil rights and international labor solidarity. Brothers on the Line weaves the tale of one family’s quest to compel American democracy to live up to its promises of equality for all.
Director: Sasha Reuther, sasha@brothersontheline.com
http://www.brothersontheline.com
Porter Street Pictures
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2008)
83m; U.S.
Director: Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer
Synopsis: Biography of Bayard Rustin, a socialist and pacifist activist involved in labor struggles and who became a key adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. (including serving as the lead organizer for the 1963 March on Washington). Film also explores the constant conflicts Rustin was forced into given treatment of homosexuals.
Contact: http://rustin.org/
Brother John (1971)
95m; U.S.
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman
Synopsis (IMDB): A mysterious man John Kane (Sidney Poitier) who, when he returns to his hometown in Alabama for his sister’s funeral, is thought to be an outside labor agitator – until it’s revealed that he’s really a heavenly messenger. The plot revolves around a strike at the town’s big factory.
Bronco Bullfrog (1970)
86m; U.K.
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
Synopsis: Portrait of Working Class Youth in London in late 60’s.
British Sounds (1969)
From: Senses of Cinema Cinémathèque Annotations on Film in Issue 37 by Jonathan Dawson:
Source: NFVLS Prod Co:
Kestrel Productions for LWT
Prod: Irving Teitelbaum
Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger Phot: Charles Stewart
Editor: Elizabeth Kozmian (actually edited by Christine Aya)
Sound: Fred Sharp
Jean-Luc Godard’s wildly polemical piece of political cinema, British Sounds, offers clear evidence at the end of the 1960s that the French nouvelle vague (New Wave) was anything but monolithic or even offered a coherent or unified philosophy of filmmaking practice and intent.
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