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Rough Diamonds – A Video Presentation (2001)

26 Apr

10m; U.S.

Director: Dennis Strom; Clyde Ware

Cast: Jesse Johnson, Tyrone Power Jr, Joe Estevez

Synopsis: A video presentation about a coal miner working to get medical care for his wife. The miner is eventually trapped in a coalmine disaster and barely escapes with his life. Tyrone Power Jr, grandson of the famous Tyrone Power, and Joe Estevez, the brother of Martin Sheen appear in the presentation.

Contact: Steve Fesenmaier has a VHS copy he was given by Clyde Ware who still works out of Delaware Pictures, 650 N. Bronson Ave., B114, Hollywood, CA 90004 (323) 960-4552 delaware_pix@yahoo.com

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health

 

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Roving Pickets (1992)

26 Apr

28m; U.S.

Synopsis: Looks at the consequences of automation in the coal mining industry in eastern Kentucky: severely reduced wages, chronic unemployment, families divided by out-migration and in 1961 and 62, the cancellation of union health insurance benefits the threatened closing of the UMWA hospitals. All this stimulated President Johnson’s interest in creating the “War on Poverty.”

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Automation, Documentary, Safety & Health

 

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The Last Campaign (2005)

20 Apr

107m; U.S.

Director: Wayne Ewing

Synopsis: “The Last Campaign” – a sequel to Ewing’s legendary first film in 1972, “If Elected…” – covers the 2004 campaign of Justice Warren McGraw for the re-election to the West Virginia Supreme Court, dubbed the ‘nastiest’ judicial race, if not the most expensive in the nation. Scenes from “If Elected…” -which covered Warren McGraw’s 1972 race for the West Virginia State Senate and was originally broadcast by Bill Moyers in 1973 – are interspersed with the story of McGraw’s 2004 Supreme Court race to create a unique, cinema verite portrait of American politics over a 32 year span. One man’s struggle to resist corporate interference in the electoral process is the continuing theme. In 2004, the US Chamber of Commerce is suspected, of funneling millions of dollars from multi-national corporations into West Virginia in the primary and general election in a successful effort to defeat Justice Warren McGraw as a part of what Forbes Magazine described as a “secret war” against judges in America. The Chamber’s shadowy efforts were joined in the general election by a group calling itself “For the Sake of the Kids” which spent millions, supplied from a coal company executive to wage a smear campaign against McGraw alleging that he let a sexual predator loose to work in a school. That same coal company executive has a pending 50 million dollar judgment against his company on appeal before the West Virginia State Supreme Court.

Contact: http://www.thelastcampaign.com/

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Legal System, Politics

 

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Locked Out (2010)

20 Apr

There are 2 versions: a 60 minute one with narration and a 90 minute one without; U.S.

Director: Joan Sekler
Synopsis: David and Goliath story of how 560 unionized (ILWU) miners in the desert town of Boron, California stood up to their employer Rio Tinto, a giant multinational mining company, and won a decent contract after being locked out of their jobs for 107 days and replaced by scabs.
Contact: http://www.lockedout2010.org/index.html

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Lockout (2007)

20 Apr

56m; Australia

Director: Jason van Genderen

Synopsis: Story of the 1929 Australian mineworker lockout, aka the Rothbury Riots, that country’s most violent industrial conflict.

Contact: greg@lockout.tv 61 413 017 771 (Cell)

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Monogah Heroine (2007)

20 Apr

25m; U.S.

Director: Gina Martino Dahlia

Synopsis: The film focuses on the widows left behind from the December 6, 1907 Monongah mine disaster, still dubbed the worst disaster in American history.

Contact: WVU School of Journalism – gmartino@mix.wvu.edu , 304-293-3505 ext. 5407

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Safety & Health, Women, Working Class

 

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Margaret’s Museum (1995)

20 Apr

114m; U.S.

Director: Mort Ransen

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Nelligan and Clive Russell

Synopsis (IMDB): In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can’t avoid the spectre of the pit forever.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

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The Men of the Deeps (2002)

20 Apr

60m; U.S.

Director: John Walker

Synopsis: Canadian Coal Miners whose livelihood has been lost

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health

 

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Mine (2009)

20 Apr

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

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

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Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986)

20 Apr

28m; U.S.

Director: Anne Lewis

Synopsis: The documentary of the strike of the UMWA coal miners against the A.T. Massey Co., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and the Flour Corp. This is an intimate look at both workers and strikebreakers. This area of WV is where mine wars have been fought since the 1920’s.

Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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