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How Yukong Moved the Mountains (1976)

Directed by Joris Ivens
Release date(s) 10 March 1976 (Paris)
Running time 763 minutes
Country France

From MOMA.org:

“From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. The vast amount of footage they shot was edited into twelve films of varying lengths. Focusing on ordinary people spread over a wide geographic area—many of whom were living and working in collectives—the filmmakers recorded a unique moment in history, and also captured some of the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture.”

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/932

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2012 in Documentary

 

The Golden Cage: A Story of California’s Farmworkers (1989)

29m; U.S.

Director: Susan Ferris

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food

 

The Globalization Tapes (2002)

85m

Director: Vision Machine Film Project

Synopsis: The film powerfully documents workers exploration of history, globalization, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.

 

Grassroots Rising: Asian Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles (2006)

56m; U.S.

Director: Robert C. Winn

Synopsis: Poignant stories of Asian immigrant families as their grassroots organizing efforts build community in LA.

Contact: http://www.vconline.org/grassroots/index.html recc by APALA DC’s Malcolm Amado Uno Muno@aflcio.org

 

Granito de Arena (2005)

Mexico

Director: Jill Freidberg

Synopsis: Resistance to attacks on public education in Mexico as result of globalization.

 

Golden Lands, Working Hands

150m; U.S.
Synopsis: California labor history
http://www.cft.org/member-services/labor-education/golden-lands,-working-hands.html

Contact:  Golden Lands, Working Hands, CFT, One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440, Oakland, CA 94612, 510/832-8812, or email . Visit the Golden Lands, Working Hands page in the CFT website, http://www.cft.org.
Fred Glass, Communications Director California Federation of Teachers One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440 Oakland, CA 94612 510/832-882 fax 510/832-5044
http://www.cft.org

 

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Go Forward: The Iraqi Freedom Congress (2006)

32m; Iraq

Director: Osamu Kimura & Mabui Cine Coop

Synopsis: Iraqi working-class organizing and fight against occupation.

Contact: http://homepage2.nifty.com/cine-mabui/

 

Global Village or Global Pillage (2001)

USA; 27m

Director: Jeremy Brecher

Synopsis: A documentary that shows how ordinary people around the world are taking on the global economy.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy

 

From the Other Side (2002)

92m; U.S.

Director: Chantal Ackerman

Synopsis: Immigrant workers.

Contact: First Run Icarus Films. http://www.frif.com/new2002/other.html

 

From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras

Synopsis: Laid-off Tennessee factory workers visit Mexican communities where factories moved.