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Mighty Times: The Children’s March (2004)

20 Apr

40m; U.S.

Director: Robert Houston

Synopsis: About young people organizing in Birmingham, Alabama when the elders were encouraging slowing down civil rights organizing.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Blacks, Children, Documentary, Organizing

 

Millions of Us (1936)

20 Apr

20m; U.S.

Director: American Labor Productions

Synopsis: Scab turned unionist advocate

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Organizing

 

Mills of the Gods (1934)

20 Apr

66m; U.S.

Director: Roy William Neill

Synopsis: With the family plow factory on the verge of going belly up, matriarch May Robson finds her trust fund kids just don’t give a darn, but as rioting workers battle police, granddaughter Fay Wray finds solidarity and love with union leader Victor Jory.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Drama, Organizing, Romance, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Mine (2009)

20 Apr

120m; U.S.

Director: Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin

Synopsis: MINE follows several members of a community in Eastern Kentucky as their community and landscape begins to change dramatically through mining.

Contact: c/o BAVC, 2727 Mariposa, 2nd Floor San Francisco, California 94110 (415) 558-2121 http://minedocumentary.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

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Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986)

20 Apr

28m; U.S.

Director: Anne Lewis

Synopsis: The documentary of the strike of the UMWA coal miners against the A.T. Massey Co., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and the Flour Corp. This is an intimate look at both workers and strikebreakers. This area of WV is where mine wars have been fought since the 1920’s.

Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Mine Wars (2004)

20 Apr

55m; U.S.

Director: Bill Richardson

Synopsis: Bill Richardson tells of the coal miners’ war for freedom through the use of film, telling this powerful and important story in the context of U.S. history. The critically acclaimed feature film uses over 800 vintage photos and music of the era to convey a sense of time and place.

Contact: Bill Richardson 29 Skyview Drive, Apt. #1, Belfry, KY 41514; e-mail brichard@wvu.edu.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, War, Working Class

 

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Minnesotanos Mexicanos (1978)

20 Apr

61m; U.S.

Director: Kathleen Laughlin & Don Morstad

Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Minnesota

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Miracle in Milan (1951)

20 Apr

100m; Italy

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Urban poverty in Italy solved by a strange happy ending.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

Misery in the Borinage (MISÈRE AU BORINAGE) [1933]

20 Apr

25m; France

Synopsis: This is one of the first documentaries ever made that show the lives of coal miners and their families. This film is a social documentary describing the fate of some 15,000 miners in the Borinage, who in 1932 staged a strike in protest against the announcement by Belgian mine-owners of a 5% cut in wages. The film is still extremely moving and portrays men who were often treated worse than animals.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Mississippi Chicken (2007)

20 Apr

82m; U.S.

Director: John Fiege

Synopsis: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else.

Contact: http://www.mississippichicken.com/contact.asp

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Class, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Migrant workers, Safety & Health, Working Class

 
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