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Wall Street (1987)

124m; U.S.

Director: Oliver Stone

Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis (IMDB): Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980’s New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that “Greed is Good”. Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of “yuppies”, shady business deals, the “good life”, fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father (a good union man) and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Drama, Finance

Washington Area Women in the Trades Video (2007)

13 Jun

10m; U.S.

Synopsis: Short doc profiles the WAWIT program with interviews with participants, CSA Exec. Director Kathleen McKirchy, and more

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

Waterfront (1984)

13 Jun

284m; Australia

Director: Chris Thomson

Cast: Jack Thompson, Greta Scacchi and Frank Gallacher

Synopsis (IMDB): Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

Tags: Boating and Shipping

Watsonville on Strike (1989)

13 Jun

65m; U.S.

Director: Jon Silver

Synopsis: Teamster cannery workers’ 18-month struggle.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

Tags: Food Service Industry

The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano) [1998]

13 Jun

124m; Italy

Director: Gianni Amelio

Cast: Francesco Giuffrida, Enrico Lo Verso and Rosaria Danzè

Synopsis (IMDB): Turin at the end of the fifties: two brothers have emigrated there from Sicily and the older works very hard to let the younger study and free himself from poverty through culture. The boy however is not keen on school and would like to begin to work. When after some time he gets his degree however things take a violent and dramatic turn

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Children, Drama, Education, Working Class

We ‘re Not Just Fighting For Our Own Skins (2007)

13 Jun

81m; Germany

Director: Holger Wayman

Synopsis: In May 2005, the Bosch-Siemens workers in Berlin who produce Siemens household appliances were threatened with the closure of their factory and the loss of 600 jobs.

Contact: http://www.videowerkstatt.de/ autofocus@videowerkstatt.de Holger Wayman: howeg@hotmail.de

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Manufacturing, Unemployment-Wages

We All Fall Down

13 Jun

65m; U.S.

Director: Gary Gasgarth

Synopsis: This timely and informative documentary chronicles the history of America’s mortgage finance system, from its origins in the 1930s, when the federal government first made available long-term, fixed-rate loans to new American homeowners, to its current state of crisis, after an excess of risky mortgage financing led to the system’s collapse, which in turn triggered a wider economic recession.

Contact: http://icarusfilms.com/new2009/fall.html lori@icarusfilms.com Sending screener

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

We Didn’t Want It to Happen This Way (1978)

13 Jun

30m; U.S.

Director: George Lindblade

Synopsis: Shot on film in 1978, this project was commissioned by the Zenith Corporation and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. It chronicles the effect of the Sioux City Zenith plant closing on the lives of nine people from seven families. The film crew then traveled to Taiwan and Mexico, where the Sioux City jobs relocated. This was the first wave of US manufacturing jobs moving to offshore facilities. 1500 people, mostly women, lost their jobs. The film was intended to encourage Congress to pass antidumping laws that would protect American workers. We Didn’t Want it to Happen This Way was the winner of the 1979 American Film Festival Award. – https://siouxcitygifts.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/48?osCsid=7kdbncntn103lnet2704fo4086

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Manufacturing, Outsourcing

We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women (1982)

13 Jun

58m; U.S.

Director: Thomas C. Goodwin, Dorothy McGhee, Gerardine Wurzburg

Synopsis: On October 2, 1979, Marilyn McCusker was killed working inside a deep coal mine in central Pennsylvania. It had taken her two years and a sex discrimination suit in federal court to get her job as a coal miner. This award-winning film has been called “the best documentary ever made on women in non-traditional occupations.”

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health, Women

Tags: Mining