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  A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
The story of A. Philip Randolph from his years as a radical black journalist, through his organizing of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to his mobilization of the 1963 March on Washington.
(1996, 86 min) $49

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  The Corporation
Explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Winner of 23 International Awards including the Sundance World Cinema-Documentary Audience Award.(2005, 145 min.)$26

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  The Devil's Miner
An astonishing portrait of two brothers, 14-year-old Basilio and 12-year-old Bernardino, who work deep inside the silver mines of Cerro Rico, Bolivia.
(2005, 82 min) $24

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  From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges
Haskell Wexler directed this film version of Ian Ruskin performing his one-man show about Harry Bridges, the extraordinary leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, to a packed house of 1000 longshore workers. Includes appearances by Elliott Gould and Ed Asner, as well as music by Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sarah Lee Guthrie and others.
(2007, 82 min) $24

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  It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has been a pioneering woman in Bluegrass and hardcore country music and has influenced generations of songwriters and musicians. Her songs of hard work, hard times, and hardy souls have bolstered working people at picket lines and union rallies throughout the land and her piercing vocals power the soundtracks for Harlan County USA and Matewan. Includes interviews, archival footage, recent performances and 16 of her most powerful songs.
(2000, 60 min.) $24

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  Maquilapolis (City of Factories)
Documentary filmed in Mexico where workers struggle for survival working in maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. (2006, 60 min.) $49

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  Morristown: In the Air and Sun
Director Ann Lewis chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with workers and families impacted by globalization. (2007, 60 min.) $24

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  Mother Jones: America’s Most Dangerous Woman
Documentary focusing on the life of labor heroine, Mary Harris Jones, a.k.a. Mother Jones. (2007, 23 min.) $10

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  North Country
Charlize Theron stars in this story of the women who broke the gender barrier working in the Minnesota iron mines and broke legal ground with the nation's first class action sexual harassment lawsuit.
(2005, 126 min) $15

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  The Pageant of the Paterson Silk Strike
Performance poet Chris Chandler meditates on the 1913 IWW strike from the point of view of an 8 year old boy in a photograph. With David Roe on piano.
(2007, 15 min) $12

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  The Pajama Game
Doris Day is the union rep and John Raitt the supervisor in this Broadway musical about workers in a pajama factory who are fighting for a seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase. Choreography by Bob Fosse.
(1957, 102 min) $20

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  Rebuilding San Francisco 1906-1910: The Workers Story
In the weeks following the 1906 Earthquake, thousands of union tradesmen – piledrivers, ironworkers, bricklayers, electricians, plumbers and countless others, worked to rebuild the city of San Francisco.
(2006, 27 min) $20

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  Sacco and Vanzetti
Brings to life the story of the two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial.(2006, 82 min.) $25

 

 


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