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An Everlasting Piece (2000)

103m; Ireland

Director: Barry Levinson

Colin (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic and George (Brian O’Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. Labor FilmFest Note: No real work angle here — and not recommended for a labor filmfest — other than the fact that the guys are barbers, but that’s hardly touched on as the focus is their attempts to run a small business amid the factions in Belfast during the Troubles. Definitely lesser Levinson, as well.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Drama

An Injury to One (2008)

24 Jan

18m; Switzerland

Director: Paul Williams, Kristyne Peter & Anita Gardner

Synopsis: The Mexican miners’ struggle for union independence.

Contact: Kristyne Peter, International Metalworkers’ Federation, kpeter@imfmetal.org http://www.imfmetal.org

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing

Tags: DCLFF LIBRARY, Mining

An Injury to One (2002)

24 Jan

53m; U.S.

Director: Travis Wilkerson

Synopsis: History of copper miner organizing in Butte, Montana.

Contact: http://frif.com/new2003/inj.html

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary

Tags: Mining

Anatomy of a Lie (1962)

24 Jan

19m; U.S.

Director: IAM

Synopsis: Refutes details shown in the film And Women Must Weep, produced by the National Right to Work Committee.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary

And Women Must Weep (1962)

24 Jan

26m; U.S.

Director: National Right to Work Committee

Synopsis: Anti-union film dramatizing a wildcat strike staged by the IAM in Princeton, Indiana in 1956-57.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women, Working Class

And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1995)

24 Jan

U.S.

Director: Severo Pérez

Synopsis (IMDB): Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farmworker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing is awful, sometimes the boss furnishes no water as the hands labor, and TB goes untreated. In good times the pay is $15 a day for adults, half that for children. For a few sordid weeks, his parents leave him in the care of a corrupt couple, he’s expelled from school for hitting back, and he finds solace in a graveyard. As his parents long for their missing son, as folks gather around a local troubadour for songs of romance, comedy, and heartbreak, Marcos observes and remembers.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Themes

Andalucia (2007)

24 Jan

94m; France

Director: Alain Gomis

Cast: Samir Guesmi, Delphine Zingg, Djolof Mbengue, Bass Dhem, Axel Bogousslavsky, Marc Martínez

Synopsis: Algerian man moves to Paris and deals with issues of class, employment, immigration, and poverty.

Contact: 1001 Productions: 44, boulevard Magenta 75010 Paris, Téléphone : (33) 1 47 70 44 70, Fax : (33) 1 40 18 42 49; Email : milleetune@free.fr claude nouchi: claude.colifilms@club-internet.fr 1001 Productions http://www.1001productions.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

Angadi Theru (2010)

24 Jan

148m; India

Director: Vasanthabalan

Synopsis: Jyothi Lingam (Mahesh) is a bright student and son of a mason who leads a happy life in his village near Tirunelveli. One day tragedy strikes as his father the only earning member dies in an accident while crossing an unmanned railway gate and the young boy now has to look after his mother and two sisters. Mahesh, along with hundreds of others, works at the Senthil Murugan Stores run by the big Annachi where 50 to 60 sales boys and girls work in pitiable conditions from early in the morning to late at night, without any rest. He meets Kani (Anjali), a fiery, independent girl. Angadi Theru is about how these two survive in concentration camp-like conditions and what happens when fate smiles cruelly at them. This film is considered to be a milestone in Tamil cinema due its raw content.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Children, Drama, Safety & Health, Working Class

Angel City (1980)

24 Jan

Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Ralph Waite, Paul Winfield, Jennifer Warren, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Ralph Waite stars as the head of a rural mountain family that journeys to south Florida as migrant workers only to find themselves trapped in a squalid labor camp controlled by money-hungry Mitchell Ryan and his two henchmen.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on January 24, 2012 in Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Drama, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Slavery