U.S.
Director: National Labor Committee
Synopsis: An exposé on how Disney treats its workers in Haiti.
Contact: View the documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OXhtgHBxk
Category Archives: Documentary
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter (1982)
58m; U.S.
Director: Jack Santino, Paul R. Wagner
Synopsis: Black working-class mobility
Mighty Times: The Children’s March (2004)
40m; U.S.
Director: Robert Houston
Synopsis: About young people organizing in Birmingham, Alabama when the elders were encouraging slowing down civil rights organizing.
Mine (2009)
120m; U.S.
Director: Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin
Synopsis: MINE follows several members of a community in Eastern Kentucky as their community and landscape begins to change dramatically through mining.
Contact: c/o BAVC, 2727 Mariposa, 2nd Floor San Francisco, California 94110 (415) 558-2121 http://minedocumentary.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3
A Miner’s Tale
38m; South Africa
Director: Rehad Desi
Synopsis: Coal miners in South Africa. What are the conditions of miners in South Africa from Zimbabwe? How do these miners explain AIDS and how do they try to cope with this devastating health care crisis? This film looks at the AIDS crisis from the lives of Zimbabwe miners who must work in South Africa to help their families. After leaving the mines with AIDS and returning home they must try to educate their wives and their families that their lives have forever changed.
Minnesotanos Mexicanos (1978)
61m; U.S.
Director: Kathleen Laughlin & Don Morstad
Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Minnesota
Misery in the Borinage (MISÈRE AU BORINAGE) [1933]
25m; France
Synopsis: This is one of the first documentaries ever made that show the lives of coal miners and their families. This film is a social documentary describing the fate of some 15,000 miners in the Borinage, who in 1932 staged a strike in protest against the announcement by Belgian mine-owners of a 5% cut in wages. The film is still extremely moving and portrays men who were often treated worse than animals.
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