55m
Director: Todd Darling
Synopsis (WorldCat): Describes the living and working conditions of undocumented Mexican agricultural workers at the Año Nuevo flower ranch in San Mateo County, California. Documents the efforts of a group of these workers, fired when they attempted to join a union, to reach a settlement with the Año Nuevo owner through the U.S. legal system. Includes interviews with prominent scholars, attorneys and organizers.
24m; U.S.
Director: Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young
Synopsis: What if 51,000 activists from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to change it?
Contact: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/awip.html
120m; U.S.
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred MacMurray
Synopsis: A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
28m; U.S.
Synopsis: Filmed in Mingo County, WV. and Martin County, Ky, this documentary interviews the natives, organizers, and poets of Appalachia who were directly affected by coal mining in the area. Intereviews are inter cut with the scenes of destruction. Floods, black lung, and uncontrolled strip mining disasters resulted from the activities in the area and huge multinational corporations continue to be primary forces in the area. The postscript lists results of the arc land ownership study just published. Stars Wheeling Jesuit University president Rev. Hacala.
80m; U.S.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Synopsis: American picture of the entertainer as proletariat and of the way we purchase women entertainers’ bodies – to look at if not to possess.
38m; U.S. and Argentina
Director: Melissa Young
Synopsis: Argentinian workers run factories “recovered” from owners.
82m; Croatia
Director: Ognjen Svilicic
Synopsis: Ibro takes his son Armin from their small Bosnian village to Croatia to audition for a German film about the Balkan conflict.
52m;
Director: Luis Argeo; Chip Hitchcock
Synopsis: The town of Arnao (Asturias province, northern Spain) grew under the wing of the Royal Mining Company. After the closure of its mine and the limitations of its factory at the beginning of the 20th century, many of its employees immigrated to similar factories located far from the sea, at the foot of the mountains of West Virginia. Several new towns were created: Spelter and Anmoore. 90% of their population was Asturians. Luis Argeo traveled from Spain in spring 2006 to document the community with the assistance of Chip Hitchcock of WBPBS.
Contact: Luis Argeo” argeol@hotmail.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Luis+Argeo&search=Search
133m; U.S.
Director: Michal Goldman
Synopsis (IMDB): During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops – a place known as “little Moscow” – where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers’ rights.
Contact: Michal Goldman Michalman@aol.com Filmmakers Collaborative 397 Moody Street Waltham MA 02453 T 781 647-1102 F 781 647-1140
82m
Broadcast Date: June 9, 1957
Network: CBS
Synopsis (WorldCat): Filmed exploration of how automation was changing the way America worked and how computers and automatic machines were revolutionizing industry, including the replacement of workers by machines. Includes interviews with Walter Reuther, then president of the UAW and vice-president of the AFL-CIO, Thomas J. Watson Jr., then head of IBM, and others. An in-depth exploration of the beginning of the age beyond the Industrical Revolution. [With Edward Murrow]
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