Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
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.
This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film footage and photographs are integrated with first-hand accounts of UMWA history and of the Pittston strike of 1989-90.
For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Scotia. BESCO cut wages by a third, setting off a bitter labour dispute. The miners settled in for a long strike. Finally, in 1925, the military ended the unrest with brute force. But the miners, in one sense, had won. They broke up the monopoly and provided an example to workers across the country.
Kuzey İngiltere'de 1984 yılında yaşanan madenci grevinin sosyal bir zemin olarak karşımıza çıktığı film, ağabeyi ve babası greve katılan 11 yaşındaki bir çocuğun tek başına ayakta durma savaşını ve içsel mücadelesini anlatıyor. Box ringini terkedip bale dersleri almaya başlayan Billy Elliot'un seçimi ailesi tarafından yadırgansa da, bale hocası Bayan Wilkinson ona arka çıkacaktır * Yeşilçam filmlerini özleyenler için muhteşem. Özlemeyenler için de muhteşem * filmi seyrederken kendi kendime "şu çocuk kadar istikrarlı olamadım:)" diye hayıflandım * Zarif film. Sade içten rahat. Olduğu gibi olabilen insanlar gibi...
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.
Sene 1984. İngiltere, Margaret Thatcher’ın muhafazakar politikalarının etkisi altındadır. Bu politik atmosfer içinde ezilen başlıca gruplardan biri eşcinsellerdir. Ancak en az onlar kadar baskı altında olan bir grup daha vardır; maden işçileri! İlk bakışta hiçbir ortak noktası yokmuş gibi gözüken bu iki grup birbirine yardımcı olabilecek midir? Onur (Pride) lezbiyen ve gey aktivistlerin güçlerini maden işçileri ile birleştirerek, hem politik engelleri, hem de ön yargıları aşmalarının gerçek ve renkli hikayesini anlatan, harika bir İngiliz Sineması örneği.
In their own words, this is the story of six women from the South Wales valleys and how they helped sustain the bitter year-long miners' strike, changing their lives forever.
The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.