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One Third of a Nation… (1939)

20 Apr

79m; U.S.

Director: Dudley Murphy

Contact: Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson and Myron McCormick

Synopsis (IMDB): A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family. Only later does Peter learn that the firetrap tenement is one of his own vast real estate holdings. Faced with his own unwitting complicity in the deaths and injuries resultant from the fire and with his growing attachment to Mary, Peter decides to tear down his tenements and erect decent affordable housing. But his family is aghast at his plan and plots to wreck it.

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

 

Our Daily Bread (Unser Taglich Brot) [2006]

20 Apr

92m; Germany/Austria

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Synopsis: Effects of industrial food production and high-tech farming

Contact: http://www.ourdailybread.at/jart/projects/utb/website.jart?rel=en&content-id=1130864824947 Distribution for USA, Canada First Run / Icarus Films Gary Crowdus 32 Court Street, 21st Floor USA-Brooklyn NY 11201 t +1-718-488 8900 f +1-718-488 8642 gary@frif.com http://www.frif.com

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health

 

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Our Families, Our Community, Our Union (2007)

20 Apr

12m; U.S.

Director: Jano Oscherwitz

Synopsis: The struggle of Native American healthcare workers to organize and the issues that they face.

Contact: Jano.oscherwitz@seiu1021.org

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Safety & Health, Service Workers

 

Outland (1981)

20 Apr

112m; U.S.

Director: Peter Hyams

Cast: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen and Peter Boyle

Synopsis (IMDB): Marshal W.T. O’Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. During his tenure miners are dying – usually violently. When the marshal investigates he discovers the one thing all the deaths have in common is a lethal amphetamine-type drug, which allows the miners to work continuously for days at a time until they become “burned out” and expire. O’Niel follows the trail of the dealers, which leads to the man overseeing the colony. Now O’Niel must watch his back at every turn, as those who seek to protect their income begin targeting him.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health, SciFi, Working Class

 

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Pills Profits & Protest

20 Apr

Contact: OUTCAST FILMS Vanessa Domico info@outcast-films.com Office: 917.520.7392

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

 

Troubled Harvest (1990)

19 Apr

30m

Directors: Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco

Synopsis (Women Make Movies): This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherry harvests in California and the Pacific Northwest. Interviews with women farm workers reveal the dangerous health effects of pesticides on themselves and their children, the problems they encounter as working mothers of young children, and the destructive consequences of U.S. immigration policies on the unity of their families. Featuring an interview with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union.

Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c72.shtml

 
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Posted by on April 19, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers, Safety & Health, Women

 

Men and Dust (1940)

15 Apr

17m
Director: Lee Dick
Synopsis (BAM/PFA): An exposé, based on the findings of the Tri-State Survey Committee, of the appalling health conditions and survival problems of the workers in the zinc and lead mining areas at the junction of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. It shows the fight led by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union to improve the efforts of mine owners to eliminate silicosis, tuberculosis and lead poisoning.
available on YouTube

 
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Posted by on April 15, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

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Who Needs Sleep? (2006)

31 Mar

78m

Director: Haskell Wexler

Synopsis: “Ahhh… the glamorous life in Hollywood. Or is it? Film crews routinely work sweatshop hours, often clocking 15 to 18 hour days at the expense of their families, their health, their well-being, and even their lives.

In 1997, after a 19-hour day on the set, assistant cameraman Brent Hershman fell asleep behind the wheel, crashed his car, and died. Deeply disturbed by Hershman’s preventable death, filmmaker and multiple-Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler shows how sleep deprivation and long work hours are a lethal combination. Who Needs Sleep? is a commentary on our quality of life.”

http://whoneedssleep.weebly.com/index.html

 
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Posted by on March 31, 2012 in Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Safety & Health

 

Libby, Montana (2004)

30 Mar

124 min

Directors: Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr

Synopsis (PBS): Libby, Montana is first of all the story of an ideal American community in what early explorers called “the land of the shining mountains.” Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies along the crystal-clear Kootenai River, Libby is the archetypal backpacker’s, hunter’s and angler’s paradise, as well as a picture-perfect example of the American wilderness that environmentalists want to save. At the same time, the town’s remoteness and its logging and mining economy nurtured conservative, self-reliant family and community values.

But Libby, Montana is also the story of an ideal betrayed in a way that crosses political lines and raises alarming questions about the role of corporate power in American politics and the environmental pollution that extracts its highest costs from ordinary citizens. In Libby, 70 years of strip-mining an ore called “vermiculite” and marketed as the wonder material “Zonolite” exposed workers, their families and thousands of residents to a toxic form of asbestos, creating what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called the worst case of industrial poisoning of a whole community in American history.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/libbymontana/film_description.php

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Safety & Health

 

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The Labor Movement: Beginnings and Growth in America (1959)

30 Mar

14m; U.S.

Director: Coronet Films

Synopsis: Developments in labor’s organization in the US from 1873 through the merger of the AFL and CIO. The role played by Samuel Gompers, the Knights of Labor and the AFL-CIO are traced.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 
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