65m; Bolivia
Director: Humberto Rios
Synopsis: A political history of Bolivia which shows the working conditions of the miners.
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Dark River / Rivers of Blood / Las Aguas bajan turbias (1952)
92m; Argentina
Director: Hugo del Carril
Synopsis: The brothers Santos and Rufino Peralta (of Carril and Laxalt) are used like animals in the workplace at the Parana Stop. There they encounter enormous hardship and inhuman conditions of work as a consequence of the immense greed of the managers. A worker’s rebellion is maturing, to the point that it is developed into trade union of workers who respond against their grief. Finally, the workers plot a counterattack and punish their corrupt employers.
David Beats Goliath: How Inglewood Defeated Wal-Mart
10m
Director: LA Alliance for a New Economy
Synopsis: Victory of a community-labor coalition that defeated Wal-Mart’s efforts to locate a mega-store in Inglewood.
Death Threats-The Lives Of Colombian Trade Unionists (2005)
50m; Colombia
Director: Silvia Maria Hoyos
Synopsis: Stories of Five Workers Under Threat In Colombia.
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.
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
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy (2009)
56m; U.S.
Director: Bob Hercules & Bruce Orenstein
Synopsis: Legendary organizer Saul Alinsky led the movement to empower disenfranchised communities through collective actions. Now others have taken up the challenge. The film examines Alinsky’s life and adaptive legacy through work being done by two contemporary “people’s organizations.” Case studies of his work in Rochester and recent IAF organizing work in Texas and Brooklyn.
The Deserter (1933)
105m; USSR
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast: Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin and Aleksandr Chistyakov
Synopsis (IMDB): A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country
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 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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