Director: Harold Mayer
Synopsis: Strike and development of Drug and Hospital Workers Union in New York City.
Category Archives: Genre
The Liquid Fire (1962)
29m; U.S.
Director: Martin Hoade
Synopsis: This is an episode of the NBC religious program “The Eternal Light” and was produced by the Jewish Theological Seminary. It is a docu-drama presentation of the life of Samuel Gompers, a key founder and first head of the American Federation of Labor from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Contact: The film can be viewed here: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13671/m1/
Live-In Maid (2004)
83m; Argentina
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina and Marcos Mundstock
Synopsis (IMDB): A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routine and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.,
Living By the River (2009)
24m; Nepal
Director: Manoj Raj Pandey
Synopsis: Documentary about one of the marginalized group of people who have been living and working on the bank of Narayani River in Nepal for generations. After the National park was established they were deprived of fishing, discontinuing their traditional livelihood.
Contact: Ramesh Badal Secretary-DFA DFA
Living Wage 101 (2005)
25m; U.S.
Director: Georgetown Solidarity Committee
Synopsis: Documentary chronicling the 5 year campaign of Georgetown campus workers and students to win a living wage for many campus workers, including the 2005 10-day hunger strike which won a historic living wage policy. Documentary is intended in part to help inspire and educate other students to organize similar campaigns on their campuses.
Contact: View the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRaJvyDzo0
Locked Out (2010)
There are 2 versions: a 60 minute one with narration and a 90 minute one without; U.S.
Director: Joan Sekler
Synopsis: David and Goliath story of how 560 unionized (ILWU) miners in the desert town of Boron, California stood up to their employer Rio Tinto, a giant multinational mining company, and won a decent contract after being locked out of their jobs for 107 days and replaced by scabs.
Contact: http://www.lockedout2010.org/index.html
Locked Out in America: Voices from Ravenswood
30m; U.S.
Director: Barbara Kopple
Synopsis: Documentary examines lockout at the dispute between the Ravenswood Aluminum Company and Local 5668 of the United Steelworkers in Ravenswood, WV.
Lockout (2007)
56m; Australia
Director: Jason van Genderen
Synopsis: Story of the 1929 Australian mineworker lockout, aka the Rothbury Riots, that country’s most violent industrial conflict.
Contact: greg@lockout.tv 61 413 017 771 (Cell)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
104m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay and Avis Bunnage
Synopsis: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor’s prize runner.
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