Harlan County U.S.A.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
Harlan County War
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Car Wash
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Miners Shot Down
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.
Doi Boy
Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist.
Rat Man
After a model is brutally murdered on a Caribbean island, her sister's investigation uncovers a horrifying rat-like creature.
Convicts
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
The Paradise of Thorns
When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.
American Dream
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.
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Barbara Kopple
Director
Robert Milicevic
as
Police Detective
Tony Bill
Director
Roger Dunn
as
Alfred Ramsey
Lynne Griffin
as
Mrs. Yarborough
Ted Levine
as
Silas Kincaid
Leslie Carlson
as
Udell
Michael Schultz
Director
Carmine Caridi
as
Foolish Father
Danny DeVito
as
Joe
Melanie Mayron
as
Marsha
Garrett Morris
as
Slide
Panisara Rikulsurakan
as
Bee
Arak Amornsupasiri
as
Ji
John McConnell
as
Guard #1
Lukas Haas
as
Horace Robedaux
Mel Winkler
as
Jackson
Robert Duvall
as
Soll Gautier
Engfa Waraha
as
Mo
Jeff Satur
as
Thongkam
Ronald Reagan
as
Self
Jesse Jackson
as
Self
Dan Rather
as
Self
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