48m; Israel-Palestine
Synopsis: European delegation investigates conditions of Palestinian workers
Contact: Website to Video 48: http://www.hanitzotz.com/video.htm
Category Archives: Documentary
Mississippi Chicken (2007)
82m; U.S.
Director: John Fiege
Synopsis: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else.
Contact: http://www.mississippichicken.com/contact.asp
Mitumba: The Second Hand Road (2005)
53m; Italy
Director: Rafaelle Brunetti
Contact: The story of a t-shirt and its journey from the north to the south of the world, told by the people involved in the second-hand clothes trade.
Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves
Synopsis: Each day, thousands of women leave underdeveloped countries to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. This film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of their stories.
Mondovino (2004)
135m; Belguim
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Synopsis (IMDB): A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world’s different wine regions.
Monogah 1907 [1986]
29m; U.S.
Director: Arthur Young
Synopsis: Davitt McAteer is one of America’s leading experts on coal mine safety. In 1984, he founded the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center (OSHLC), a public interest law firm based in Shepherdstown that engages in education, training and policy analysis of issues involving workplace safety and health. While director of this Center, he produced this film. In 1993, he was named assistant secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor under President Clinton. This film tells the story of the struggle for mine safety in the U.S., focusing on the tragedy of Monongah, WV, in which 362 miners died. In December 2007, WVU Press released his book on the subject, “Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Mine Disaster.”
Contact: Debbie Roberts, droberts@mcateer-assoc.com
Monongah Remembered (2008)
30m; U.S.
Director: Peter Argentine
Synopsis: About the greatest loss of life as the result of a coal mine disaster in American history, the December 6, 1907 the Monongah Mine Disaster
Contact: www.argentineproductions.com http://www.monongahmovie.com/
Morristown: In The Air and Sun
60m; U.S.
Director: Anne Lewis
Synopsis: Making the connections between immigration and the global economy In this hour-long documentary, director Ann Lewis chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with displaced or low-wage Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and workers and families impacted by globalization. The film shows how working-class people in Mexico and eastern Tennessee are caught in the throes of massive economic change, challenging their assumptions about work, family, nation and community. “Morristown” is in Spanish and English with subtitles
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