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Starkiss: Circus Girls in India (2003)

07 May

77m; Netherlands/India

Director: Jascha de Wilde, Chris Relleke

Synopsis (IMDB): This documentary provides an interesting look at the life of young girls (as young as 7)who are basically sold to the circus as performers. Some parent’s, having received advances on their daughter’s contracts, abandon them for years. Others, pay occasional visits to their daughters, often coming for another advance. The girls are basically jailed, unable to communicate with anyone other than their trainers and guard. A well done documentary providing some really poignant shots and candid interviews.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Children, Documentary, Entertainment Industry

 

Startup.com (2001)

07 May

107m; U.S.

Director: Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim

Cast: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Tom Herman and Kenneth Austin

Synopsis (IMDB): Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have had a dream since they became friends at age fifteen: get rich by developing their own dot com company, in some aspect of computer technology interface. Now in their late twenties, they have now come up with the idea they believe will make their riches, namely as Tom refers to it, “parking tickets”: the company will be the on-line revenue collection interface for municipal governments. GovWorks.com came into existence in May 1999 with only an idea. The process of building the business focuses on obtaining venture capital based solely on the idea, with the actual mechanics of the website seemingly almost an afterthought, or at least one left primarily to the hired help. Regardless of the strength of the idea itself in raising this capital, another initial problem they face is what they see as non-commitment by a third partner, Kaleil’s friend Chieh Cheung.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Documentary, Technology, White Collar

 

Steel (1979)

07 May

102m; U.S.

Director: Steve Carver

Cast: Lee Majors, Jennifer O’Neill and Art Carney

Synopsis (IMDB): Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Construction Trades, Crime-Action, Working Class

 

Steel City (2006)

07 May

95m; U.S.

Director: Brian Jun

Cast: Jamie Anne Allman, Raymond J. Barry and Kristian Best

Synopsis (IMDB): Steel City is a stirring family drama from the heartland of America about pride, remorse and forgiveness. When Carl Lee is involved in a fatal car accident he finds himself behind bars, cut off from his life and alienated by his family. His youngest son PJ, confused by life without his dad, is the only person to visit him. While PJ’s girlfriend stays lovingly by his side and his Uncle Vic extends a helping hand, a belligerent older brother and the reality of being on his own force PJ to grow up faster than he’d like. It’s not until a devastating secret is revealed that the family reunites and a regretful father learns that you can never take back the past, but you can let go of it.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Children, Drama, Working Class

 

The Stars Look Down (1940)

07 May

110m; U.K.

Director: Carol Reed

Cast:  Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood and Edward Rigby

Synopsis (IMDB): Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realises Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Drama, Education, Romance, Working Class

 

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Steel and Roses (2002)

07 May

Director: John Szostek

Synopsis: Play depicting life in the steel mill.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Drama

 

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Stolen Childhoods (2005)

07 May

85m; Various

Director: Len Morris & Robin Romano

Cast: Meryl Streep (narrator)

Synopsis: Stolen Childhoods is a feature length documentary on global child labor.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Children, Documentary, Global Economy

 

Stolt Australia (2007)

07 May

11m; Australia

Synopsis: Fight by MUA ship crew of the MT Stolt to keep jobs

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Documentary, Working Class

 

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Stop-Loss (2008)

07 May

113m; U.S.

Director: Kimberly Peirce

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis (IMDB): Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Drama, War, Working Class

 

Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town

07 May

59m; U.S.

Director: Micha X. Peled

Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary that follows events in Ashland, VA, over a one-year period, from the first stormy public hearing that galvanizes residents’ opposition until the Town Council takes a final vote on the proposed Wal-Mart Store. Highlights Wal-Mart as the icon of the Big Box Industry and the symbol of sprawl.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Working Class

 
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