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If you're looking for fiction films that include unions and the like, some other references could go all the way back to the strike scene (modeled after the Homestead Strike) in Griffith's INTOLERANCE, not to mention Eisenstein's STRIKE.  In addition to the previously mentioned THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT, check out the Boutling brothers' I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK, with Peter Sellers as a comically hard-core British union leader.  Jimmy Cagney played a comically corrupt American union leader in NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL.  Another 1950s film about union corruption is SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE (probably best known for its score by Richard Rogers, which was composed before the film).

Some others include Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR (especially interesting for its intersection of racial tension with working conditions), Scorsese's early film (produced by Roger Corman) BOXCAR BERTHA, and Bo Widerberg's JOE HILL, about the IWW organizer.

The film version of LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN might also be of interest.  NEWSIES is a rather strange mixture of musical and historically-based drama about newsboys in New York organizing against the big newspapers they worked for.

Several films deal with strikes at coal mines in Britain or elsewhere including Ford's HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY and Claude Berri's adaptation of Zola's GERMINAL.

Among documentaries, in addition to Barbara Kopple's previously-mentioned HARLAN COUNTY, USA, also see her AMERICAN DREAM, about the wildcat meatpackers strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota, probably the most complex and nuanced of them all.

Don Larsson
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Donald F. Larsson
Department of English
Minnesota State University
Mankato, MN  56001
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From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Sharon Knolle
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Norma Rae
Hoffa
Matewan
Harlan County, USA
On the Waterfront



On Sep 28, 2004, at 2:15 AM, Philippe Meers wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking for films & references on unions and labour movements.
Any suggestions?
thanks!

Philippe
University of Antwerp

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