9m; U.S.
Director: Maurice Bailen
Synopsis: This low-budget independent documentary provides memorable social history of the people and events of 1934 in Chicago.
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The Great Swindle (1948)
36m; U.S.
Synopsis: A presentation of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers position versus the National Association of Manufacturers in the latter’s successful campaign to force termination of government price controls. It explains the relationship between wages, prices, profits and monopoly control.
The Great White Hope (1970)
103m; U.S.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander and Lou Gilbert
Synopsis: Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) as a boxer, dealing with the racism and hatred of early-20th century white America.
Greed (1924)
124m; U.S.
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Synopsis: Story of miner-turned-dentist and obsession with money.
The Greening of Southie (2008)
72m; U.S.
Director: Ian Cheney
Synopsis: Documentary about Boston’s first residential green building, and the skeptical workers who are asked to build it.
Greensboro: Closer to the Truth (2007)
86m; U.S.
Director: Adam Zucker
Synopsis: A documentary film chronicling the participants in the Greensboro Massacre—a 1979 attack in which the Ku Klux Klan killed five Communists in broad daylight, and no one was convicted. Klansmen and former Communists converge in the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be held in the U.S. in 2004-2006.
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The Grievance Hearing (1953)
15m; U.S.
Synopsis: A dramatized incident in an industrial plant is used in showing how grievance hearings enable representatives of labor unions and management to arrive at compromises in the settlement of disputes.
A Grin Without a Cat (Le Fond de l’air est rouge) (1977)
240m; France
Synopsis (Wikipedia): The film features many interviews with French communist leaders, students, and sociologists. The Prague Spring of 1968 is featured, with footage of a Fidel Castro speech in which he expresses political support for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia while questioning the legality of the action. Other sections deal with the rise of Salvador Allende and the Watergate Scandal in the United States. There are many subtle references to cats throughout the film, as well as brief shots of raccoons.
Gung Ho (1986)
112m; U.S.
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe and George Wendt
Synopsis (IMDB): When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
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