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The Uprising of ’34 (1995)

13 Jun

87m; U.S.

Director: George Stoney, Judith Helfand & Susanne Rostock

Synopsis: THE UPRISING OF ’34 tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The mill workers’ defiant stance – and the remarkable grassroots organizing that led up to it – challenged a system of mill owner control that had shaped life in cotton mill communities for decades.

Contact: First Run Icarus Films (http://www.frif.com/cat97/t-z/the_upri.html) / http://www.pbs.org/pov/uprisingof34/

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Documentary, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Textile Industry

 

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The Waiters (2006)

13 Jun

85m; U.S.

Director: Derik Wingo

Cast: Derik Wingo, Lorrainne Petersen and Scott Vogel

Synopsis: Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while “waiting” for their big break.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Entertainment Industry, Service Workers

 

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The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time (1982)

13 Jun

78m; U.S.

Director: Jim Brown

Synopsis: Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, “The Weavers,” and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Labor History

 

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The Wisconsin Plan: From Welfare to Work? (2007)

13 Jun

13m; Israel

Director: Sawt el-Anel/The Labor’s Voice

Synopsis: Israel’s Welfare to Work Plan

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary

 

The World According To Monsanto (2008)

13 Jun

109m; France

Director: Marie-Monique Robin

Synopsis: Marie-Monique Robin has produced a powerful and frightening film in understanding the danger on a global level of out of control genetic engineering and the food industry. Workers, farmers, consumers and the environmentalists are all threatened by the unregulated development and growth products from this industry. The US media have censored the role of Monsanto and other biotech companies in spreading genetically engineered products that are harmful to workers in the laboratory, farmers and consumers around the world.Injured biotech worker David Bell who worked at Agraquest in Davis, which was owned by a former Monsanto Pest Division molecular biologist Pam Marrone, is one of the victims of this unbridled development and cover-up by the biotech industry.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy

 

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The Yes Men (2003)

13 Jun

80m; U.S.
Director: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price

Synopsis (IMDB): A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization’s–and it’s mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire that highlights the worst aspects of global free trade

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Finance, Global Economy

 

Thelma & Louise (1991)

13 Jun

130m; U.S.

Director: Ridley Scott

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and Harvey Keitel

Synopsis (IMDB): Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Crime-Action, Drama, White Collar, Working Class

 

Them That Work – How Matewan Inspired a State (2009)

13 Jun

3:12; U.S.

Director: Jason Brown

Synopsis: Documentary about John Sayles’s “Matewan.” Features interviews with John Sayles, Chris Cooper, David Straithairn, and others.

Contact: http://www.themthatwork.com/TTW/Home.html

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Labor History, Organizing

 

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There Oughta Be A Law: NoJobIsWorthThis.com (2009)

13 Jun

Director: Beverly Peterson

Synopsis: Documentary about the devastating impact of abusive bosses. And their victims’ national struggle to pass anti-harassment laws.

Contact: http://nojobisworththis.com/about Beverly Peterson 347-229-6815 peterson.beverly@gmail.com

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Whistleblowers, Women

 

These Hands (1992)

13 Jun

DVD
45 minutes, 1992, Tanzania, Africa
Director: Flora M’mbugu-Schelling
in Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles
http://newsreel.org/video/THESE-HANDS

Who would have suspected that a 45 minute documentary about women crushing rocks, without narration or plot, would offer one of the most unforgettable and rewarding experiences of recent African cinema? Flora M’mbugu-Schelling’s quiet tribute to women at the very bottom of the international economic order ultimately deepens into a mediation on human labor itself. These Hands will stimulate viewers to rethink documentary and to question their own role as consumers in a global economy.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Blacks, Construction Trades, Documentary, Global Economy, Women

 

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