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Mechanical Love (2007)

20 Apr

Director: Phie Ambo

Synopsis (IMDB): “Mechanical Love” is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. The film portrays people who have a close relationship with a robot, and it takes us from the high temple of robot technology, Tokyo, Japan, to Braunschweig, Germany, to Italy and back to Copenhagen, Denmark. By this world tour director Phie Ambo seeks to highlight the human need for love and our craving to be loved by others – perhaps the two most important aspects of life. Through the main characters, she examines the cultural differences in how we accept emotional robots in the East and the West.

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

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Technology, Working Class

 

Metropolis (1926)

20 Apr

There are several versions the film with different running times from 90 to 153m; Germany

Director: Fritz Lang

Synopsis (IMDB): In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

 

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Classic, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, SciFi, Working Class

 

Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti: Walt Disney and the Science of Exploitation (1996)

20 Apr

U.S.

Director: National Labor Committee

Synopsis: An exposé on how Disney treats its workers in Haiti.

Contact: View the documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OXhtgHBxk

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Service Workers, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

20 Apr

117m; U.S.

Director: Robert Redford

Cast: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford and Sonia Braga

Synopsis (IMDB): In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, the local people support him because of their resentment of water use laws that favor the rich like Devine. When the Governor sends in ruthless troubleshooter Kyril Montana to settle things quickly before the lucrative development is cancelled, a small war threatens to erupt.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Construction Trades, Drama, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter (1982)

20 Apr

58m; U.S.

Director: Jack Santino, Paul R. Wagner

Synopsis: Black working-class mobility

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Blacks, Documentary, Service Workers, Transportation

 

Minnesotanos Mexicanos (1978)

20 Apr

61m; U.S.

Director: Kathleen Laughlin & Don Morstad

Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Minnesota

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

The Missing Star (La Stella che non c’è) [2006]

20 Apr

103m; Italy

Director: Gianni Amelio

Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Tai Ling

Synopsis: Labourer Vincenzo travels from Italy to China in search of a machine with a deficiency that was produced in the now defunct establishment at which Vincenzo worked for years.

Contact: Cattleya Via della Frezza, 59 Roma00186 Italy Phn: +39-06-367201 Fax: +39 06 3672050 http://www.cattleya.it/ info@cattleya.it

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

The Mission

20 Apr

48m; Israel-Palestine

Synopsis: European delegation investigates conditions of Palestinian workers

Contact: Website to Video 48: http://www.hanitzotz.com/video.htm

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Migrant workers, Service Workers

 

Mississippi Chicken (2007)

20 Apr

82m; U.S.

Director: John Fiege

Synopsis: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else.

Contact: http://www.mississippichicken.com/contact.asp

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Class, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Migrant workers, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

Mister Cok (2009)

20 Apr

10m; France

Director: Franck Dion

Synopsis: Looking for efficiency and profit in his bomb factory, Mister Cok decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots, but one worker is not discarded so easily.

Contact: rvdboom@papy3d.com Papy3d productions, 43 Bd Auguste Blanqui 75013 Paris, France

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Technology, Working Class

 
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