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Extra Innings – A History of Coalfield Baseball (1994)

21 Feb

90m; U.S.

Synopsis: The history of America’s favorite pastime as it was played by the men who dug America’s coal in the 1930’s and 40’s. Practically every coal town in WV. had a baseball team and Sunday was spent at the ball diamond every Sunday. Some of the finest athletes that played professional ball starred as players in the coal leagues. Many other fine WV. athletes received offers to play professional ball, but decided to stay in the coal fields for a variety of reasons. Listen to some of the reasons and some fascinating memories of the games and times. A look back through extensive use of photographs from the turn of the century through the beginning of WW II.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Sports, Working Class

 

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Extract (2009)

21 Feb

92m; U.S.
Director: Mike Judge
Cast: Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig and Ben Affleck

Synopsis: Joel, the owner of an Extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. There are labor issues — the plant workers try to form a union — but they’re incidental and the focus is primarily on the plan owner and his personal problems.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Organizing, White Collar, Working Class

 

Eyes on the Fries (2004)

21 Feb

21m; U.S.

Cast: Casey Peek and Jeremy Blasi

Synopsis: Millions of young working people know all too well: no matter how hard you work and how well you do in school, it can be difficult to stay afloat when you’re coming of age in a “McJob” economy.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Service Workers, Working Class

 

F.I.S.T. (1978)

21 Feb

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

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Transportation, Working Class

 

Faces of Tradeswomen

21 Feb

Synopsis: Female construction workers

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Construction Trades, Documentary, Women, Working Class

 

Falling Down

21 Feb

113m; U.S.

Director: Joel Schumacher

Cast:  Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey

Synopsis: An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, White Collar, Working Class

 

Fast Food Nation (2006)

21 Feb

116m; U.S.

Director: Richard Linklater

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Catalina Sandino Moreno

Synopsis: Fiction-film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book on the food system in the U.S.  Health & safety risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.

Contact: Linklater’s production company: Detour Filmproduction Phone: 512-322-0031 Linklater’s assistant: Sara Greene sara@detourfilm.com Eric Schlosser (author) c/o Houghton Mifflin Company Trade Division Adult Editorial, 8th Floor 222 Berkeley St Boston, MA 02116-3764 USA

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Environment, Farm & Food, Global Economy, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

Fast Food Women (1992)

21 Feb

28m; U.S.

Director: Anne Lewis Johnson

Synopsis: Close-up look at working conditions of fast-food service workers in eastern Kentucky. Affecting portraits but somewhat dated (though the issue is still current).

Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 

Fear and Trembling (2003)

21 Feb

107m; France

Director: Alain Corneau

Cast: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji and Tarô Suwa

Synopsis: A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amélie’s downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 

Fame is the Spur (1947)

21 Feb

A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.

Hamer Radshaw rises from a Manchester slum to an important post in the British Cabinet but, along the way, his strong socialist beliefs undergo modifications to the extent that, while maintaining them in principle, he diametrically opposes them in practice. His ‘spur’ for prosperity and social status causes him to sacrifice his ideals and friends, including allowing his wife, a fighter for women’s rights, to be jailed.Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> on IMDB

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Politics, Women, Working Class

 
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