56m; Mozambique
Director: Licínio Azevedo
Cast: Edmundo Mondlane, Chano Orlando, Chico António, Paito Tcheco, Manuel Adamo
Synopsis: A 12-year-old vendor, robbed in an African suburb, pursues his young robbers into the city. He begins to live in a market square that at night becomes a dormitory for homeless vendors.
9m; U.S.
Director: Maurice Bailen
Synopsis: This low-budget independent documentary provides memorable social history of the people and events of 1934 in Chicago.
36m; U.S.
Synopsis: A presentation of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers position versus the National Association of Manufacturers in the latter’s successful campaign to force termination of government price controls. It explains the relationship between wages, prices, profits and monopoly control.
103m; U.S.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander and Lou Gilbert
Synopsis: Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) as a boxer, dealing with the racism and hatred of early-20th century white America.
124m; U.S.
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Synopsis: Story of miner-turned-dentist and obsession with money.
72m; U.S.
Director: Ian Cheney
Synopsis: Documentary about Boston’s first residential green building, and the skeptical workers who are asked to build it.
86m; U.S.
Director: Adam Zucker
Synopsis: A documentary film chronicling the participants in the Greensboro Massacre—a 1979 attack in which the Ku Klux Klan killed five Communists in broad daylight, and no one was convicted. Klansmen and former Communists converge in the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be held in the U.S. in 2004-2006.
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15m; U.S.
Synopsis: A dramatized incident in an industrial plant is used in showing how grievance hearings enable representatives of labor unions and management to arrive at compromises in the settlement of disputes.
112m; U.S.
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe and George Wendt
Synopsis (IMDB): When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
54m; U.S.
Director: Vivian Price
Synopsis: Female construction workers.
Contact: www.hammeringitout.com; Vivian Price vprice@csudh.edu/blues3@verizon.net; Women Make Movies 212-925-0606 ADDRESS: C/O Susanne Davis 2225 East Ocean Blvd Long Beach CA 90803
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