Political Films about underdogs -- fighting for dignity, class struggle, and against unfeeling governments, military-industrial complex and capitalism
- Tom Monto
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NFB online
24 Days in Brooks
about unionization drive of meatpacking plant at Brooks, Alberta
Final Offer
Bob White and founding of CAW
1919 Winnipeg General Strike
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Internet Archives
Many films on labour and socialist issues and events, including
these Canadian topics:
By: CUTV Montreal
Published: Nov 14, 2011
By: NB Media Co-op
Published: Aug 30, 2024
By: submedia.tv
Published: Aug 23, 2012
This is the second video subMedia.tv has produced about the struggle to stop the a natural gas transport project called the Pacific Trails Pipeline or PTP.
By: WION News
Published: Nov 05, 2022
Published: Nov 16, 2010
Views: 9
Topics: British Columbia, rabble.ca News for the rest of us, Community TV, Community Media, BC - Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Youtube, politics, Canada, Canadian, BC, Gordon Campbell, Carole James, NDP, Stephen Harper, 2010
NotRex Rant for Nov 15 2010 about the need to strike the "fear of the electorate" in politicians
(Direct Legislation?)
may be of interest--
By: Science Channel
Published: Nov 23, 2012
Views: 272
Topics: Strip The City, Toronto, Ice City, 2012, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, 2014, Engineering, documentary, science documentary, engineering
Collections: Community Video
Strip the City is a documentary science television series that aired on the Science Channel in 2012 and 2014. It explores the construction of major cities and the geology lying beneath them, wit
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Shaping San Francisco
San Francisco General Strike (1934) parts 1 and 2
Labor Comes of Age 1969
AFL-CIO
Grass roots, rural communes in the U.S.A. (1975)
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Erin Breckinridge -- starring Julia Roberts
Erin Breckinridge herself does a small role in the film
based on true story
Norma Rae - starring Sally Field
unionization drive in southern U.S. cotton mill.
I Daniel Blake (2016) -
An old-timey carpenter struggles with poverty, health issues lack of computer skills, and byzantine rules for applying for government assistance, while social workers are stuck in bureaucratic rules and speed-up orders.
Not based on individual true events, but in general does express the true situation of British social workers and citizens who depend on the British social safety net.
Official Secrets (2018) -- starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes
based on true story of British intelligence specialist who leaked fact that the U.S. had no real evidence that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction, as same time as U.S. President George W. Bush was asking Britain to participate in the "coalition of the willing" to attack that country. Tens of thousands died as result of that unwarranted conflict.
Matewan (1987)
about coal miners in a war with company detectives in 1920 Battle of Matewan in West Virginia.
check out a book-length account of the WV mine wars, Thunder in the Mountains, by Savage.
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Springbok rugby tour in 1981 caused wave of anti-apartheid protests
Wiki "1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States"
films about the 1981 anti-apartheid mobilization:
Try Revolution
tells the story of the Springbok rugby tour in 1981. The film has live footage of the anti-apartheid demonstrations that tried to stop the tour.
Patu! (1983)
follows the inner workings of the anti-apartheid campaign against the tour, and captures scenes of violent conflict between police and protesters.
Wiki "Patu!"
1981: A Country at War
(documentary )
Uproar (2023)
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