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Fair Game (2010)

108m; U.S.

Director: Doug Liman

Cast:  Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sonya Davison

Synopsis: Based on story of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, the married couple who were at the centerstorm of a Washington, D.C. scandal over Plame’s outing as an undercover CIA operative by Washington Post journalist Robert Novak. The scandal, known in the press as “Plamegate”, destroyed her career and rocked the White House as accusations were leveled against the Bush administration and its allies. Ambassador Wilson made the charge that the Bush administration had knowingly leaked his wife’s covert status as a direct response for his public statements that the administration played up or outright lied that Iraq had uranium in its possession to make nuclear bombs.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Politics, War, Whistleblowers

 

Fame is the Spur (1947)

A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.

Hamer Radshaw rises from a Manchester slum to an important post in the British Cabinet but, along the way, his strong socialist beliefs undergo modifications to the extent that, while maintaining them in principle, he diametrically opposes them in practice. His ‘spur’ for prosperity and social status causes him to sacrifice his ideals and friends, including allowing his wife, a fighter for women’s rights, to be jailed.Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> on IMDB

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Politics, Women, Working Class

 

FDA: A History (2008)

82m; U.S.

Synopsis: History of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Contact: Compliance Media; http://www.fdahistory.com

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Politics, Safety & Health

 

Squash (2002)

French; 27m
directed and written by Lionel Bailliu. The film has won multiple awards at film festivals and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category in 2004. The film stars Malcolme Conrath as Alexandre and Eric Savin as Charles.

Depicts an increasingly aggressive squash game between two businessmen, Alexandre and his boss, Charles. The game is presented as a metaphor for office politics.

 

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Politics, Sports, White Collar

 

Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle (1997)

118m; U.S.

Director: Rick Tejada-Flores & Raymond (Ray) Telles

Synopsis: More than two years in the making, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle is the first film to cover the full arc of Cesar Chávez’ life. Using archival footage, newsreel, and present-day interviews with Ethel Kennedy, former California Governor Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, and Chávez’ brother, sister, son and daughter, among others, the documentary traces the remarkable contributions of Chávez and others involved in this epic struggle. (http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/index.html)

Contact: The Cinema Guild Inc. 130 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016-7038 (212) 685-6242 info@cinemaguild.com http://www.cinemaguild.com

 

Finally Got the News (1970)

55m; U.S.

Director: Bird, Gessner, Lichtman, Louis

Synopsis: FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit.

 

Five Factories – Workers Control in Venezuela (2006)

81m; Venezuela

Director: Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler

Synopsis: Venezuelan workers worker democracy/takeover of factories.

 

For A Six Hour Workday (2004)

20m; Argentina

Director: Grupo Alavio & MarieTrigona

Synopsis: Documents the efforts by Buenos Aires transit workers to re-introduce the 6 hour day after the military dictatorship had destroyed the labor conditions.

 

Fourth Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO (1962)

20m; U.S.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Politics

 

Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980)

60m; U.S.

Director: Steven Fischler & Joel Sucher

Synopsis: Documentary of the Jewish Anarchists in the New York garment industry and their newspaper the Freie Arberiter Stimme.