40m; U.S.
Director: The Women’s Film Project
Synopsis: Uses film clips, old photographs, and newsreel footage to trace women’s struggle to attain equal rights in education, employment, politics and in the courts.
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The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
80m; U.S.S.R.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Cast: Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov and Ivan Chuvelyov
Synopsis: A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.
End of the Line (2008)
76m; Brazil
Director: Gustavo Steinberg
Cast: Rubens de Falco, Leonardo Medeiros, Maria Padilha, Daniela Camargo, Gisella Reiman, Lulu Pavarin, Turíbio Ruiz
Synopsis: Humorous, satirical and cleverly constructed début by Steinberg slowly but surely knots together seven stories from everyday Brazilian life. It all comes down to money, money, money: from the Indians who want to be paid for their rain dance to the politician who just can’t help winning the lottery, time and again.
Contact: Hubert Bals Fund (http://www.fimdalinha.com.br/index_en.html) / Hubert Bals Fund, bits@osfilmes.com.br
Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma (2004)
11m; Burma
Director:Christine Umali
Synopsis: Forced labor in Burma.
Contact: christine@witness.org 718 783 2000 x.342 (Work)
An Equal Opportunity (1982)
13m; U.S.
Director: Caroline Leaf
Synopsis (IMDB): This open-ended drama is designed to trigger discussion on the subject of equal opportunities for women in the workplace and on the role of unions in securing those opportunities and eliminating discriminatory labor practices. Though set within a hospital and focusing on one of several staff women who are denied access to a pharmacy training program despite suitable qualifications, the underlying premises, conflicts, and responses have implications that reach far beyond the hospital walls
Erin Brockovich (2000)
131m; U.S.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
Synopsis: Based on the true story of an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.
Escape to Paradise (2001)
91m; Switzerland
Director: Nino Jacusso
Synopsis: Turkish emigres in Switzerland.
Contact: Distributor: Insert Film Untere Steingrubenstrasse 19 Postfach 106 Solothum/Schweiz, CH-4504 Switzerland Phone: 41-32-625-700 http://www.insertfilm.ch
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.
Everyday Heroes (2001)
48m; U.S.
Director: IAMAW
Synopsis: America’s workers epic response to the attacks of September 11th
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