49m; Israel
Director: Hedva Galili-Smolinsky
Synopsis: Immigrant workers’ children in Israel.
Category Archives: Documentary
Documentary on the lives of contract workers in cement MNCs in India (2009)
14m; India
Synopsis: Documents the lives of contract workers in the cement industry in India.
Doing the Right Thing
Synopsis: How the Worker’s Party government in Porto Alegre, Brazil has transformed the city into a model of participatory development.
Dollar A Day, 10 Cents a Dance (1984)
30m; U.S.
Director: Geoffrey Dunn
Synopsis: Filipino immigrant farmworkers in the Pajardo (CA) Valley.
Down and Out in America (1986)
57m; U.S.
Director: Lee Grant
Cast: Lee Grant, Jeff Farmer and Bob Hanson
Synopsis: Three sectors of American society hit by recession in the mid-1980s: heartland farms, factory workers out of a job, and the new homeless. In Minnesota, 250 family farms are being repossesed each week; men and women talk about their farms, the nature of their bank loans, the onslaught of corporate farming, and their sorrow and despair. In cities where 3,500 jobs per day go overseas, unemployed workers contemplate their options. The newly homeless talk about the jobs they’ve lost, “Justice Ville” in Los Angeles (bulldozed by court order), and squatting in New York’s abandoned buildings. A family living in a welfare hotel tells their story.
Drifters (1929)
49m
Director: John Grierson
Synopsis (WorldCat): A key film of the British documentary movement; for the first time in the British cinema workers at their jobs (the men of the herring fleets) were the central subject of a film. The emphasis is on poetic images of motion; the influences are Flaherty and editing techniques suggested by Soviet films.
Dubai: One City, Two Faces (2008)
29m; United Arab Emirates
Director: Ines Mendia
Synopsis: The documentary shows the underside of money in Dubai, a city where too much is never enough, and human rights are forgotten.
Contact: inesmendiaerror@yahoo.es 690607271 (Cell)
Experience Fenton (2000)
28m
Synopsis: Traces history of the Fenton Art Glass Company, emphasizing the importance of the relationship between the Fenton management and the glass workers who produce the products.
More information available at: http://www.fentonartglass.com/
Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American (1994)
60m; U.S.
Director: Bette Jean Bullert
Synopsis: This portrait aired on several major public television stations in the late 1990s. It captures the life and music of the composer of “Joe Hill,” “Black and White,” “Ballad for Americans” and other songs that convey the hopeful, progressive spirit of his generation. Rich in archival footage, this documentary includes performances of Robinson’s songs by Joan Baez, Frank Sinatra, Paul Robeson, Josh White, Three Dog Night, Peter, Paul & Mary, and of course, Earl himself. Judy Collins narrates.
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