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1) Norma Rae
Language
English
Description
Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized...
3) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dramatized version of the battles which took place in the coal fields of West Virginia in the 1920s when the union and the coal companies were at odds.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Set against the background of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, this is the love story of an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman. In Califonria, 1936, intermarriasge (marriage between races) is illegal. Jack McCurn (Quaid) and Lily Kawamura (Tamlyn Tomita) must elope to Seattle, where she bears a daughter. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, Lily, her family and thousands of other Japanese-Americans are 'relocated'...
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