28m; U.K.
Director: Chris Reeves
Synopsis: About the Morning Star, the only English laguage daily socialist newspaper in the world, and its forerunner, The Daily Worker, which began publication in 1930. The paper is known as the Daily Miracle as it keeps appearing with a staff of 25, against the 300 in most newsrooms, and a government and business boycott of advertising
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Communism/Socialism
Tags: Journalism
95m; U.S.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi
Synopsis (IMDB): In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence – who quits TV in disgust over things – and friendship with the show’s ex-star – now himself blacklisted – make him start to think about what is really going on.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Entertainment Industry
Tags: Government
30m; U.S.
Director: Peter Miller
Cast: Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg
Synopsis: Idealism, socialism, and the power of music in people’s lives.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Labor History
Tags: Music
90m; Malaysia
Director: Amir Muhammad
Synopsis: A travel documentary essay, interspersed with specially composed songs, about the early life and legacy of Chin Peng, exiled leader of the banned Communist Party of Malaya.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary
78m; U.S.
Director: Jim Brown
Synopsis: Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, “The Weavers,” and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Labor History
Tags: Music
15m; U.S.
Director: Diane Krauthamer
Synopsis: A short documentary that chronicles the struggles and victories of the Starbucks Workers Union, from how it formed, to members continuing to organize.
Contact: Diane Krauthamer iw@iww.org
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Organizing
Tags: Food Service Industry
52m; U.S.
Director: Roy Campolongo
Synopsis: The Triangle Fire documentary chronicles those remarkable times, when the rising forces of industry converged with the greatest mass migration in history. We explore the dramatic events of the late 19th, and early 20th century labor movement, that reached a crescendo with the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911. This film examines the relationship between New York’s rapidly growing metropolis, corrupt political infrastructure, an industry’s desire for profit, and the human rights of its workers. Furthermore, the documentary investigates how we have adapted today, to those epic events that would forever change the fabric of our nation. Part of PBS’ “American Experience” series.
Contact: View online here: http://video.pbs.org/video/1817898383
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Available Online, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Safety & Health, Textile Industry, Women
89m; Italy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Contact: Totò, Ninetto Davoli and Femi Benussi
Synopsis: Humorous jaunt of working class young man and father to the big city accompanied by a crow who talks revolution and whom they eventually kill and eat.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Children, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Experimental, Philosophy
113m; U.S.
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters and Anthony Quinn
Synopsis (IMDB): In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province, Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed, leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger, and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by a strolling intellectual, Fernando, he supports the exiled Don Francisco Madero against Diaz, and becomes the leader of his forces in the South as Pancho Villa is in the North. Diaz flees, and Madero takes his place; but he is a puppet president, in the hands of the leader of the army, Huerta, who has him assassinated when he tries to express solidarity for the men who fought for him. Zapata and Villa return to arms, and, successful in victory, seek to find a leader for the country. Unwillingly, Zapata takes the job.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Drama, Farm & Food, Labor History, War
95m; U.K.
Director: Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo
Cast: Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis and Terry Higgins
Synopsis: Dramatized history of a Reformation-era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the soil that has been neglected by the British bluebloods. It isn’t long before the landowners send their minions to burn out and kill the Diggers.
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Drama, Farm & Food, Labor History
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