30m; U.S.
Director: Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation
Synopsis: Traces history of the American labor movement. Discusses working conditions from the 19th century to 1960s, the effects of early strikes in changing governmental attitudes toward labor and the AFL and CIO.
18m; U.S.
Director: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Synopsis: The historic and economic determinants of unionism are examined to illustrate trends in economic problems influencing unionization.
92m; U.S.
Director: John David Coles
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Piper Laurie and Graham Beckel
Synopsis (IMDB): A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father’s unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.
38m; U.S.
Synopsis: Effects of the Luxury Tax on yacht workers and the fight to kill the tax.
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168m; Italy
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori and Annie Girardot
Synopsis (IMDB): The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder.
119m; U.S.
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young
Synopsis (IMDB): Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a “nobody” to become a “somebody”. The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time
99m; Ireland
Director: Peter Lennon
Cast: Sean O’Faoláin, Conor Cruise O’Brien and John Huston
Synopsis (Wikipedia): A brief sketch of Irish history since the Easter Rising of 1916 is drawn, in which the hopes of the revolutionary founders of the Irish Free State for a republican society are dashed. The writer Seán Ó Faoláin argues that what emerged was a society of “urbanized peasants” without moral courage who observed a self-interested silence in a “constant alliance” with an “obscurantist” and “uncultivated church”.
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