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Happy Times (2000)

01 Mar

102m; China

Director: Yimou Zhang

Cast: Lifan Dong, Benshan Zhao and Jie Dong

Synopsis (IMDB): Zhao is an old laid-off worker who’s dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he’s the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel “Happy Times”, Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Service Workers, Working Class

 

The Harder They Come (1972)

01 Mar

120m; Jamaica

Director: Perry Henzell

Cast: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley and Carl Bradshaw

Synopsis (IMDB): Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Drama, Entertainment Industry, Working Class

 

Harlan County War (2000)

01 Mar

104m; U.S.

Director: Tony Bill

Cast: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård and Ted Levine

Synopsis (IMDB): A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women, Working Class

 

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Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union (1992)

01 Mar

58m; U.S.

Director: Barry Minott

Synopsis: Harry Bridges was a critical and central figure in the San Francisco General Strike and this documentary provides a vivid view of his life and response not only to the issues in the strike but also to the massive effort to deport Harry Bridges starting in 1939 for accused of being a member of the Communist Party. This film using footage of the strike and his role is indispensable in showing the wit, humor and character of the founder of the ILWU.

Contact: http://www.mw-prod.com/Film/film_harry.html

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Transportation, Working Class

 

La Haine (Hate) [1995]

01 Mar

98m; France

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui

Synopsis: Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after a riot, where a policeman lost his gun. His friend Vinz finds it and claims he will kill a cop if Abdel dies.  3 young emigres in Paris, a Jew, and African & a Middle-Easterner.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

Hay que matar a B.

01 Mar

97m

Director: José Luis Borau

Cast:  Darren McGavin, Stéphane Audran and Patricia Neal

Synopsis (IMDB): In a fictitious South American country there’s lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can’t afford to strike — so he’s beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he’s described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Drama, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Heart of Factory (Corazon de Fabrica) [2008]

01 Mar

129 (long); 56 (short)
Argentina
Director: Virna Molina & Ernesto Ardito

Synopsis: The Ceramic Zanon – Fasinpat workers work in one of the most important and largest ceramic factories of South America. As a result of the owners plan to close it, the workers occupied the factory and are now running the factory themselves under workers control without bosses or owners. New threats emerged as they struggle against a political and economic system that tries to crush them and their control of the factory.

Contact: WWW.CDFDOC.COM.AR Virna Molina y Ernesto Ardito Paraguay 4554 1ºC CP 1425 CABA Argentina (+54-11) 4775-5026 nikargentina@ciudad.com.ar / info@cdfdoc.com.ar

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Organizing, Working Class

 

Heavens Above! (1963)

01 Mar

118m; U.K.

Director: John Boulting

Cast: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker and Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish and converts factory owner to idea of wealth sharing.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Politics, Working Class

 

Helldrivers

01 Mar

45m; U.S.

Director: Dale Sheldrake

Synopsis: Story of Paul Riddell and the rise and fall of thrill shows. An unusual, vanishing way of life, Paul and his wife Toby roam North America, crashing cars to entertain wide-eyed families, while training their own children to do the same.

Contact: dale@please-stay-tuned.com 416-919-2180 (Work)

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Documentary, Working Class

 

Heroes for Sale (1933)

01 Mar

76m; U.S.

Director: William Wellman

Cast: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess and Aline MacMahon

Synopsis: One of the most thrilling pre-code melodramas, Heroes for Sale follows working class hero Richard Barthelmess as he survives serious injury in WWI, overcomes a morphine addiction, faces unemployment, finds love (with Loretta Young) and a steady job, and tries to stop a vicious strike mob — and that¹s just in the first half! – Rochester Labor Film Series

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, War, Working Class

 
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