UNIONS/WORKERS RIGHTS
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price
The controversial retail giant Walmart faces the scrutiny of filmmaker Robert Greenwald in this documentary showcasing the adverse effects the behemoth inflicts on communities and individuals. Conducting interviews with former and current Walmart employees, Greenwald gets an insider’s look into some of the corporation’s alleged nefarious and exploitative labor practices. The film also explores the economic impact of Walmart on small businesses and communities.
PETE SEEGER: THE POWER OF SONG
Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines and other music luminaries discuss the life and career of the singer-activist.
HIDDEN FIGURES
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
WALKOUT PG13
Based on a true story, student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo (Vega), tired of being treated unequally, decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968, to protest educational conditions and complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. Paula Crisostomo (now Romo) is not Mexican- American–she is Filipina-American. She and her husband, then boyfriend were roommates of mine in college. We are very good friends and I see her often.
– Written by Norma Schaffer
ANIMAL FARM
The animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.
BILLY ELLIOT – R
Set in north-eastern England during the coal miner’s strike, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the neagtive stereotype of the male ballet dancer.
Trailer for Billy Elliot on TrailerAddict.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.
Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time,and was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. WIKIPEDIA
ON THE WATERFRONT
The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions. Written by Bruce Janson
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HARLAN COUNTY
This is the Harlan County USA movie trailer. This is a documentary talking about the mine strikes of Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973 where the laborers and miners of Harlan took on the mine owner, Duke Power, and its henchmen and formulated a strike with a move to go union.