10m; U.S.
Director: Insurgen Media
Synopsis: UC Santa Cruz one-day strike of workers and students that shut down the campus.
Category Archives: Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts
Eugene Debs and the American Movement (1977)
43m; U.S.
Director: Cambridge Documentary Films
Synopsis: Documentary overview of the struggles of the workers in industry through historic union formations and workers’ political parties as observed in this film of Eugene Debs and heard in his own words as narrated by his friend and comrade Shubert Sebree
Even the Heavens Weep (1985)
55m; U.S.
Synopsis: The story of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, the largest armed labor conflict in American history. TV star Mike Connors narrates this classic story about the long and bloody history of coal in Appalachia.
Contact: Debbie Oleksa West Virginia; Public Broadcasting, Morgantown, 1- 888-596-9729.
Tout va Bien (1972)
95m; France
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda and Vittorio Caprioli
Synopsis (Wikipedia): The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who is a film director. The film is Marxist in its political message, explaining the logic of the class struggle, and Brechtian in its formal qualities, which emphasize the motion of the camera. The factory set consists of a cross-section of the building and allows the camera to dolly back and forth from room to room, theoretically through the walls. This makes the factory look like an ant farm, and serves the overarching Marxist agenda. This staging is also an homage to Jerry Lewis‘s film The Ladies Man in which a similar set is used for a women’s boarding house.
Eye of the Storm (2007)
58m; U.S.
Director: Amie Williams
Synopsis: 2002 ILWU lockout
Contact: http://www.balmaidenfilms.com/who.html
F.I.S.T. (1978)
145m; U.S.
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger and Peter Boyle
Synopsis: Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob
Facing the Music
Australia
Synopsis: Strike against budget cuts at Australian university music department
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
Fighting for Our Lives (1974)
59m
Director: Peter Matthiessen, Glen Pearcy, Luis Valdez
Synopsis: An Oscar nominated portrayal of the UFW’s 1973 strike where grape workers made history by walking off the job from Coachella to Fresno to fight for a UFW contract. A moving testimony to the bravery of the farm workers in their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. Cesar Chavez & the UFW grape boycott.
Website: http://www.chavezfoundation.org/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=84 [purchasing information]
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