Director: John Szostek
Synopsis: Play depicting life in the steel mill.
Category Archives: Genre
Stolen Childhoods (2005)
85m; Various
Director: Len Morris & Robin Romano
Cast: Meryl Streep (narrator)
Synopsis: Stolen Childhoods is a feature length documentary on global child labor.
Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
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.
Stories From The Mines (2004)
57m; U.S.
Director: Thomas M. Curr and Greg Matkosky
Synopsis: Stories from the Mines chronicles the struggle of these miners to earn a decent wage, alleviate dangerous working conditions, and gain respect. The perilous work the miners performed for extremely low pay laid the foundation for America’s Industrial Revolution and the modern labor movement. Great Strike of 1902; United Mine Workers; anthracite coal; strikes.
Contact: http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/GenreLookup/A561F47E25B2B94885256C440059138E http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=231727
Strangers in the City (1962)
83m; U.S.
Director: Rick Carrier
Cast: Robert Gentile, Camilo Delgado and Rosita De Triano
Synopsis: Puerto Ricans in New York’s barrio. The boy is beaten by a gang and loses his job; the girl is raped by her employer and becomes a prostitute.
Strictly Background
84m; U.S.
Director: Jason Connell
Cast: Terry Bolo, Geoffrey Gould and Cecilia Hartfeld
Synopsis (IMDB): For decades, film and television audiences have watched their favorite stars with little thought or concern for the people standing behind them. All of that is about to change as “Strictly Background” explores the charm and determination of some of Hollywood’s hardest working actors, professional “extras.” Turning industry convention on its head, this humorous & heartfelt documentary follows ten background actors as they navigate their way on and off the set. Both a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood and a character-driven film, “Strictly Background” is a dynamic exploration into the pursuit of stardom and the real life struggle to stand out
Strikebound (1984)
101m; Australia
Director: Richard Lowenstein
Cast: Chris Haywood, Carol Burns and Hugh Keays-Byrne
Synopsis: The first real coal-miners strike in 1930’s Australia told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two lovable rogue characters. Lowenstein’s approach is simple and effective with a documentary feel about it. A leftist film worth marching for.
Strikebreakers
2:46m; U.S.
Director: Michael Moore
Synopsis: Comic vignette from Michael Moore’s TV show The Awful Truth.
Struggle (2003)
74m; Austria
Synopsis: Polish worker travels to Austria for work, picking strawberries, gutting turkeys, working as a cleaner. Essentially about division — between rich and poor, East and West, between individuals — and the perpetual strains these differences produce.
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