20m; U.S.
Synopsis: Recounts an infamous chapter in Colorado history when militia and striking coal miners clashed on the plains of south Colorado at Ludlow.
Category Archives: Documentary
Burger King Exposed (2009)
4m; U.S.
Director: Robert Greenwald
Synopsis: Fast food chain is owned by Goldman Sachs. CEO is paid 360 times more than the workers.
Contact: Brave New Films / 10510 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 info@bravenewfilms.org
Brothers on the Line (2012)
A stirring portrait of the lives and legacy of the Reuther Brothers -Walter, Roy and Victor, pioneering labor leaders under the banner of the United Auto Workers Union. Directed by Victor’s grandson, Sasha Reuther and narrated by Martin Sheen, the film follows the brothers as they rise from militant shop-floor organizers to visionary statesmen in collective bargaining, civil rights and international labor solidarity. Brothers on the Line weaves the tale of one family’s quest to compel American democracy to live up to its promises of equality for all.
Director: Sasha Reuther, sasha@brothersontheline.com
http://www.brothersontheline.com
Porter Street Pictures
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2008)
83m; U.S.
Director: Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer
Synopsis: Biography of Bayard Rustin, a socialist and pacifist activist involved in labor struggles and who became a key adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. (including serving as the lead organizer for the 1963 March on Washington). Film also explores the constant conflicts Rustin was forced into given treatment of homosexuals.
Contact: http://rustin.org/
British Sounds (1969)
From: Senses of Cinema Cinémathèque Annotations on Film in Issue 37 by Jonathan Dawson:
Source: NFVLS Prod Co:
Kestrel Productions for LWT
Prod: Irving Teitelbaum
Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger Phot: Charles Stewart
Editor: Elizabeth Kozmian (actually edited by Christine Aya)
Sound: Fred Sharp
Jean-Luc Godard’s wildly polemical piece of political cinema, British Sounds, offers clear evidence at the end of the 1960s that the French nouvelle vague (New Wave) was anything but monolithic or even offered a coherent or unified philosophy of filmmaking practice and intent.
Please visit Senses of Cinema for the complete contents of Dawson’s annotation, please click here.
Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 [Short Film Collection]
Synopsis (BFI): A slimline reissue of the Land of Promise collection, featuring 40 films over four DVDs, this extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films – many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release – capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before, during and after the Second World War.
Bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of a rapidly changing world, these fascinating historical documents are all striking for their different approaches to the form. Using poetry, dramatic reconstruction, modernist techniques and explicit propaganda, the filmmakers found fresh, new ways to get their message across.
Bringing together celebrated and less-known works from such luminaries as Paul Rotha, Humphrey Jennings, Ruby Grierson, Basil Wright and Paul Dickson, this landmark release is accompanied by a 92-page book of essays by leading film historians and experts.
Website: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_18175.html
Breyani and The Councillor (2006)
22m; South Africa
Director: Sally Giles & Fazel Khan
Synopsis: Struggle for decent housing/jobs in Durban, South Africa
Breaking Walls
Israel
Director: Yonatan Preminger
Synopsis: Follows Arab construction workers who begin to paint a mural. The film presents a hopeful picture in which walls between workers crumble. Beyond that, it shows a conservative society whose internal walls are being breached and aises important questions about the role of art in society.
Bread and Roses (2009)
1:03; U.K.
Director: Jannettja Longyear
Synopsis: A film made by Jannettja Longyear , who made this film for the TUC 60 second ad contest. The music is evocative and the whole piece is beautifully presented. Jannettja has Parkinson’s and the effort that she put in to making this film was second to none.
Contact: aburton@tuc.org.uk
Bracero Stories (2008)
56m; U.S.
Director: Patrick J. Mullins
Synopsis: Personal experiences of five former “guest workers” in the controversial U.S.- Mexican government Bracero Program.
Contact: pmullins@utep.edu 915 747-7690 (Work) 915 539-5156 (Home)
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