20m; U.S.
Director: U.S. Social Security Administration
Synopsis: Portrays the employment situation before the Social Security Act of 1935 explaining the need for a social insurance program.
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Before the Mountain Was Moved (1966)
60m; U.S.
Director: Robert K. Sharpe
Synopsis: Story of Ellis Bailey, a retired miner, who led the citizens of Raleigh County to fight against unscrupulous strip mining companies and to obtain State legislation to regulate stripping in the name of environmental conservation.
Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan (2001)
45m; U.S.
Director: Tia Lessin
Synopsis: Expose of sweatshop conditions on Saipan.
Contact: Witness; 212-274-1664 witness@witness.org tia@igc.org Winner 2002 Sidney Hillman Award http://www.uniteunion.org/pressbox/050102-hillman.html
Behind the Smile
Synopsis: Thailand’s booming economy rests on the exploitation of rural women. Through portraits of three women, we see the human cost of the country’s rapid industrialization.
Beijing Bicycle (2001)
113m; China
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Cast: Lin Cui, Xun Zhou, Bin Li
Synopsis (IMDB): A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
112m; U.K.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis: Daughter of Indian emigres in England wants to be a soccer star.
Beneath Black Skies (2009)
Australia
Director: Sandra Pires
Synopsis: A history of coal mining in the Illawarra in Australia, including the 1887 strike at Old Bulli Colliery and Australia’s two most tragic and largest industrial disasters.
Contact: Sandra Pires, Director/Producer sandra@whydocumentaries.com.au Tel: 02 4285 3545 | Fax: 02 4285 7560 | Mob: 0418 452 088 http://www.beneathblackskies.com.au
Bessie Cohen: Survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (2000)
3m; U.S.
Director: Hope Tucker
Synopsis: Life of garment workers.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
172m; U.S.
Director: William Wyler
Synopsis (IMDB): Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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