33m; U.S.
Director: Mark Lammert
Synopsis: When a John Deere plant closes in Welland Ontario, director Mark Lammert explores the causes and effects of their decision to move south.
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Debs (1978)
30m; U.S.
Director: Bernard Sanders and Nancy Barnett
Synopsis: Biography of Eugene V. Debs and his relation to unionism and American social history.
The Deer Hunter (1978)
182m; U.S.
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
Synopsis: An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Defying the Law (1997)
47m; Canada
Director: Marta Nielsen-Hastings, David Wesley, Micheal Allder
Synopsis: On July 14, 1946, a group of steelworkers poured out of Hamilton’s Playhouse Theatre and set up pickets around the country’s largest steel mill. Their action sparked one of the most important strikes in our country’s history – a strike which many consider to be the birth of the modern labour movement.
Contact: National Film Board of Canada
http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=33367
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
62m
Director: Loretta Alper
Synopsis (Media Education Foundation): Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television’s beginnings to today’s sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.
Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV’s disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants — stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy. :
Website: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=411
Desk Set (1957)
103m; U.S.
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Gig Young
Synopsis (IMDB): Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department.
The Detroit Model (1980)
45m; U.S.
Director: Alan Levin
Synopsis: Study of the decline of the US auto industry in the 1970s and early 80s.
Detroit Workers News (1932)
20m; U.S.
Director: Workers Film and Photo League
Synopsis: The only newsreel coverage of the historic mass march in downtown Detroit in 1932, against the policies of Hoover, and the armed attack by Dearborn police and Ford guards at the unemployed workers at teh gates of the River Rouge plant.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
109m; U.S.
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway,
Synopsis: A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city’s biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
92m; U.S.
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn
Synopsis: A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out labor agitators at his department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
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