20m; U.S.
Director: Workers Film and Photo League
Synopsis: Depression-era film of Communist Rallies in Michigan
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The Company Men (2010)
104m; U.S.
Director: John Wells
Cast: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner
Synopsis (IMDB): The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company – and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
Comrades (1987)
183m; U.K.
Director: Bill Douglas
Cast: Keith Allen, Dave Atkins and Stephen Bateman
Synopsis: The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Comuna Under Construction (2010)
94m
Director: Dario Azzellini
Synopsis: In more than 30,000 Consejos Comunales, Venezuelan inhabitants decide on their concerns collectively via assemblies. The film follows these developments in building worker control throughout the hillside of the shantytowns of Caracas and the vast and wet plains of Barinas in the countryside.
Contact: Wiener Str. 14 b 10999 Berlin Germany Tel.: 0049-30-61288162 Fax: 0049-30-61288162 Mobile: 0171/4156176 Mobile in Venezuela: 0058-412-6180009 Mobile Italia:0039-3335972988 Mail: dnapress@gmx.net
Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative (2007)
57m; U.S.
Director: Keya Lea Horiuchi
Synopsis: Explores how the rest of the world thinks of the US and how the US compares on social and political issues.
Contact: keyalea@yahoo.com 970 596-7267 (Cell)
Controlling Interest: The World of the Multinational Corporation (1978)
45m
Director: Larry Edelman
Synopsis: Show how pursuit of profit leads multinational corporations to hunt out ‘investment opportunities’ in low-wage countries and in the process promote US imperialism.
Constructing Fear (2007)
40m; Australia
Director: John Loh
Synopsis: A documentary exposing the activity of an industrial inquisition targeting building workers across Australia. “Constructing Fear” shows how these workers are the front line in an attack on civil liberties that has implications for every Australian.
Contact: http://www.constructingfear.com.au/
Conversation at the White House (1967)
40m; U.S.
Director: Hearst Metroone News
Synopsis: Conversation between AFL-CIO head George Meany and Lyndon B. Johnson intended for use in Johnson’s 1968 Presidential election campaign, but never released.
Convoy (1978)
100m; U.S.
Director: Sam Peckinpath
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw and Ernest Borgnine
Synopsis: Truckers form a mile long “convoy” in support of a trucker’s vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
The Cool World (1964)
105m; U.S.
Synopsis: Horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
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