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.
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1935)
80m; France
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Synopsis (IMDB): A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala’s little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine’s laundry… One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front government.
Crimes Against Nature (2008)
120m; U.S.
Director: Angus Young
Synopsis: Details the systematic dismantling of America’s environmental laws and policies by the Bush administration and its corporate cronies.
Contact: http://crimesagainstnaturemovie.com/thefilm.html
The Cry of the People (Al Grito de este Pueblo) [1972]
65m; Bolivia
Director: Humberto Rios
Synopsis: A political history of Bolivia which shows the working conditions of the miners.
Dadetown (1995)
105m
Director: Russ Hexter
Synopsis (WorldCat): Interviews in the Michael Moore/Roger and me tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town’s once-prosperous factory, reduced to the manufacture of paper clips and staples, finally closes.
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.
Do Higher Wages Cause Higher Prices? (1957)
15m; U.S.
Director: US Department of Education in association with the AFL-CIO Department of Research
Do It! (1976)
9m; U.S.
Director: Maurer, Fleisher, and Zon
Synopsis: Educational still film with voice-over narration explains why and how to organize a COPE within a union.
Doing the Right Thing
Synopsis: How the Worker’s Party government in Porto Alegre, Brazil has transformed the city into a model of participatory development.
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