58m; U.S.
Director: Amie Williams
Synopsis: 2002 ILWU lockout
Contact: http://www.balmaidenfilms.com/who.html
Category Archives: Transportation
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
Final Offer (1985)
78m; Canada
Director: Robert Collison, Sturla Gunnarsson
Cast: Henry Ramer, Rod Andrew and Owen Beaver
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary on the 1984 contract negotiations between the Canadian branch of the UAW and General Motors.
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.
Flash of Genius (2008)
119m; U.S.
Director: Marc Abraham
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham and Alan Alda
Synopsis: Corporations have time, money, and power on their side. All Bob Kearns had was the truth. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
The Flickering Flame (1997)
U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Liverpool dockworkers’ strike.
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.
Fortune Lane (1947)
60m; U.K.
Director: John Baxter
Synopsis (IMDB): Young Peter wants so badly to be an engineer that he starts to work on an invention. To raise money, he and his friend Tim wash windows. However, Tim needs the money they earn to go to Ireland to visit his grandfather who is very ill, so Peter gives him all the money they have made. Everything works out well for Peter in the end when he is praised as a young genius
Brothers on the Line (2012)
A stirring portrait of the lives and legacy of the Reuther Brothers -Walter, Roy and Victor, pioneering labor leaders under the banner of the United Auto Workers Union. Directed by Victor’s grandson, Sasha Reuther and narrated by Martin Sheen, the film follows the brothers as they rise from militant shop-floor organizers to visionary statesmen in collective bargaining, civil rights and international labor solidarity. Brothers on the Line weaves the tale of one family’s quest to compel American democracy to live up to its promises of equality for all.
Director: Sasha Reuther, sasha@brothersontheline.com
http://www.brothersontheline.com
Porter Street Pictures
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
88m; U.S.
Director: Martin Scorcese
Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine and Barry Primus
Synopsis (IMDB): During the depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.
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