Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu December 2003

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This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

1877 the grand army of starvation 1984

Re-enactment of the great railroad strike and general uprising of 1877. In the summer of that year, a rebellion by hundreds of thousands of Americans paralyzed the nation. Outraged by the excessive greed of railroad "barons" and the misery of a four-year depression, railroad strikers and sympathizers across the country clashed with police, militia, and federal troops, leaving over one hundred dead and thousands wounded.

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Á nous la liberté 1981?

A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually, both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former lives as vagabonds.

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Aelita 1991

A Moscow engineer designs a spaceship and travels to Mars to meet a woman who haunts his dreams. He succeeds, but finds himself embroiled in a Martian proletarian uprising.

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The African American cinema. II, The scar of shame (1923) and Sissle and Blake (1926) 1993

Sissle and Blake is a short filmed in Lee De Forest's New York studio with his sound-on-film process in 1923, four years before Hollywood began to experiment with sound. Pianist Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle perform their jazz composition "Affectionate Dan" and a jazzed-up spiritual. Scar of shame: In no film was the racial theme more apparent than in this story about an ill-matched marriage between a black concert painist and a poor, lower class black woman. Secretly ashamed of her, the young man keeps his wife hidden from his socially-prominent middle-class mother.

MEDIA 2-2809

America 1900 1998

Pt. 1. Spirit of the age (45 min.) -- pt. 2. Change is in the air (30 min.) -- pt. 3. A great civilized power (50 min.) -- pt. 4. Anything seemed possible (45 min.) Using archival film and photographs, interviews with historians, writers and descendants, this film looks back at the year 1900. Features President McKinley's reelection; the guerilla war in the Philippines; John Muir's nature movement,inventions such as motion pictures, x-rays, automobiles, phonographs, the electric light, and indoor plumbing, the Gibson Girl, photojournalist Frances Benjamin Johnston, public morality and Olga Nethersole's play Sapho, huge waves of immigration; deadly coal mine explosion in Scofield, Utah; racism and Jim Crow in the South; U.S. Rep. George White of North Carolina attempts to outlaw lynching; opposing black leaders Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois; Scott Joplin and the birth of the music industry; China's Boxer Rebellion and the fate of missionaries like Eva, Charles & Florence Price; deadly hurricane hits Galveston, Texas; John Mitchell's attempts to unite coal workers and the United Mine Workers strike.

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American dream 1992

The true-life story of a workers strike in Austin, Minn. When the Hormel Company made 2 million in profits and then cut workers salary by $2 an hour and benefits by 30%, the workers saw only one option: strike.

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Americano as apple pie the blending of culture 2001

A look at the "three houses of Latino culture"--Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American--and their widespread influence, from entertainment to politics to economics. Key issues include how long Hispanic peoples have been in America, and how U.S. immigration laws affect their assimilation.

MEDIA 10-126

Ancestors in the Americas Chinese in the frontier west, an American story 1998

Chronicles the arrival of the Chinese during the 1850s to 1880s in California during the Gold Rush period and their subsequent settlement in the Western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Includes the history of their labor, community building and activism for justice and equality in the courts of mid-19th century America.

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Ancestors in the Americas coolies, sailors, settlers 1996

The untold story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas. The film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean.

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Ankur The seedling / [presented by] Blaze Film Enterprises ; produced by Mohan J. Bijlani, Freni M. Variava ; story, scenario, direction, Shyam Benegal 2000

Values clash as loyalties are tried and tested in a rural Indian setting. Class conflict of the idle-rich landowning class against toiling peasants is dramatized in a brief extra-marital liaison between an attractive village laborer and her young employer.

MEDIA 10-181

Anna Sokolow choreographer 1991

Anna Sokolow speaks about her life, which began on New York's lower East Side as the daughter of immigrant Jewish parents, a heritage that has provided a strong undercurrent for her work.

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Arsenal 197-

Provides a picture of life in the Ukraine in 1914 by intercutting scenes showing the miseries of the class struggle in the countryside and the horrors of war at the front.

MEDIA 2-1264

Arthur Ashe citizen of the world 1994

Arthur Ashe was the first black tennis player to capture a Grand Slam title. This video celebrates the life of a man who was more than a world class tennis star. He was a devoted advocate of human rights, opponent of apartheid, and AIDS activist. Friends and admirers share thier insights and memories of his remarkable life and career.

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At the river I stand 1993

Documentary of two 1968 events in the civil rights movement--the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Shows how the black community, local civil rights leaders, and AFSCME mobilized behind the strikers in mass demonstrations and a boycott of downtown businesses.

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Bab el-oued city 1994

Bab El-Oued is a working class district of Algiers. A young worker commits an act which puts the entire district in turmoil.

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Bandit Queen 1995

A dramatization of the life story of the female dacoit, Phoolan Devi. "Born of low caste in the Chambal River Valley of India, 11-year-old Phoolan is sold into marriage with a man 20 years her senior. She escapes and falls in with a pack of ruthless bandits but the male-dominated gang comes with its own set of brutal humiliations, and Phoolan must struggle to rise above a culture determined to bring her down, in a bloody coup that electrified a nation"--Container.

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Becoming American 1983

Follows a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos awaiting resettlement in a remote refugee camp in northern Thailand, from the time its members learn of their acceptance as immigrants, to the time they are settled in Seattle, Washington.

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Behind the smile 1993

This film presents the human cost of Thailand's rapid industrialization by examining the living conditions of young female factory workers in Bangkok, who help support their families in the poorer rural areas of the country.

MEDIA 2-6013

Bell Hooks cultural criticism & transformation 1997

Pt. 1. On cultural criticism (22 min.) -- pt. 2. Doing cultural criticism (40 min.)The author and professor of English makes a compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural criticism. Issues of race, gender and class are central as clips from motion pictures and television illustrate her view of the pervasiveness of "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" in American popular culture.

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The big one 1998

"Michael Moore, armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, is searching America's heartland for an executive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"--Container.

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Black sugar 1989

Examines the mistreatment of Haitian laborers hired to cut sugar cane on plantations owned by the Dominican Republic State Sugar Council. Describes fraudulent recruitment promises, the practice of confiscating workers' official papers, extremely low wages, and the squalor, disease, and hunger of the work camps.

MEDIA 2-1597

Blue collar and Buddha a documentary 1996

Explores the dilemma of Laotian refugees living in Rockford, Illinois who are torn between preserving their cultural identity and adapting to their new life in America. Re-settlement is complicated by rising tensions with neighbors, many of whom resent the Laotians' economic gains and view their Buddhism with hostility.

MEDIA 2-3995

Bound for glory 2000

In 1936 Woody Guthrie leaves Texas and heads to California looking for work. He meets hobos, migrant workers and people down on their luck, and begins his career as a folk singer.

MEDIA 2-5177

Breadline, 1929 1998

The 1920s found Americans enjoying the fruits of a new prosperity in a post-war boom. Then, in 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed; banks failed and industry withered. From Europe and the United States to Latin America and Asia, the Great Depression shattered economies and communities worldwide. In this film the people who were there remember the blow as workers from the United States, Chile, Britain, Belgium and Scandinavia recall the hungry 1930s.

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Brincando el charco portrait of a Puerto Rican 1994

Contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the U.S. In a mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, this film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned Puerto Rican, lesbian, photographer/videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the U.S.

MEDIA 2-5189

The British documentary movement 1995

side 1. Drifters (1929, 49 min.) / New Era presents; directed by John Grierson -- side 2. Industrial Britain (1933, 21 min.) / Gaumont British Picture Corporation, Ltd. presents; productions, Grierson & Flaherty; an EMB film -- The song of Ceylon (1934, 37 min.) / a John Grierson production; directed by Basil Wright; commentary [written by] Robert Knox -- side 3. Granton Trawler (1934, 11 min.) / New Era Films, Ltd. presents -- Pett and Pott: a fairy tale of the suburbs (1934, 32 min.) / GPO; John Grierson presents; directed by A. Cavalcanti -- Coal face (1935, 12 min.) / an EMPO film; producer, John Grierson -- side 4. Night mail (1936, 24 min.) / an A.B.F.D. release; the G.P.O Film Unit presents; produced by Basil Wright & Harry Watt -- North Sea (1938, 22 min.) / the GPO Film Unit presents; producer, Cavalcanti; director, Harry Watt -- side 5. London can take it! (1940, 9 min.) --. (Cont.) Listen to Britain (1942, 18 min.) / produced by Crown Film Unit; producer, Ian Dalrymple; directed by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister -- sides 5-6. I was a fireman (1943, 72 min.) / produced by Crown Film Unit; producer, Ian Dalrymple; with the full cooperation of the Home Office Ministry of Home Security and the National Fire Service; script and direction, Humphrey Jennings -- side 7. Target for tonight (1941, 49 min.) / the British Ministry of Information presents; produced by the Crown Film Unit -- sides 7-8. Desert victory (1943, 62 min.) / produced by the Army Film and Photographic Unit and Royal Air Force Film Production Unit; commentary written by J.L. Hodson -- side 9. Camermen at war (1943, 15 min.) / a British Ministry of Information film; compiled by Len Lye -- A diary for Timothy (1944-45, 39 min.) / by the Crown Film Unit ; commentary written by E.M. Forster; produced by Basil Wright; directed by Humphrey Jennings --. (Cont.) side 10. Instruments of the orchestra (1947, 20 min.) / a Crown Film Unit production; produced by Alexander Shaw; directed by Muir Matheson -- Steps of a ballet (1948, 25 min.) / the Crown Film Unit presents; produced by Alesander Shaw; directed by Muir Matheson; a British Council film; made by the Central Office of Information -- side 11. Family portrait: a film on the theme of the Festival of Britain 1951 (1951, 24 min.) / a Wessex Film production; written and directed by Humphrey Jennings -- Waverley steps: a visit to Edinburgh (1948, 31 min.) / a Greenpark production; a Central Office of Information film, for the Scottish Home Department; produced by Paul Fletcher; directed by John Eldridge; written by John Sommerfield -- side 12. David (1951, 38 min.) / World Wide Pictures presents; produced by James Carr; written & directed by Paul Dickson; made for the Welsh Committee of the Festival of Britain through the British Film InstituteMEDIA. . . 7-94 disc 1 7-95 disc 2 7-96 disc 3 7-97 disc 4 7-98 disc 5 7-99 disc 6

The business of America-- 1983

Blames the current state of American industrial decline on the shortsighted investment strategies of large corporations, and poses alternatives to corporate industrial investment practices and priorities.

MEDIA D-257

Captive audience advertising invades the classroom 2003

Advertising invades the classroom -- The shadow curriculum : sponsored educational materials -- Channel One : commercials in the classroom -- Schools in need : the politics of funding -- Sweet deals : exclusive soda contracts -- Resisting commercialism : legislative action -- Resisting commercialism : local activism -- What's at stake : keeping schools public -- More on channel one -- More on commercialism -- More on the politics of funding -- More on resisting commercialism -- More on what's at stakeA compelling exposé of the transformation of classrooms, hallways, cafeterias and textbooks into advertising vehicles. Explores how education is short-changed and democracy at risk when schools become marketplaces and commercialism goes to the head of the class.

MEDIA 10-209

Chicago Symphony Orchestra historic telecasts George Szell 2000

Overture to The marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (4:05) ; Violin concerto no. 5 in A major, K. 219 : Turkish (28:30) / Mozart -- Leonore overture no. 3, op. 72b / Beethoven (12:49)"George Szell was one of the most celebrated conductors of his time. Born in Budapest, but raised in Vienna, Szell studied piano and composition from an early age. His early conducting career included a tenure as Principal Conductor of the Berlin State Opera (1924-1929). He made his first U.S. appearance as guest conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1930 and later settled here. The high point of Szell's career was his 24 year tenure as conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, which he raised to world-class rank. This video is the second devoted to Szell in VAI's series of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts.

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City of promise 1995

The context for the war on poverty shifts after 1965. Urban rebellions provoke a sense of urgency for some, while others now see the war against poverty as hopeless. Increasingly, the media and the public equate poverty with inner-city black communities. This program looks at the anger and despair of the poor and the powerless, and the anger and frustration of the middle class at having to pay for "others' mistakes." It also examines attempts made in Newark, New Jersey, to reclaim the inner city through public/private partnerships.

MEDIA 2-4088

La ciudad The city 1999

"With ... intensive collaboration with the New York Latino immigrant community over a five-year period, The City [La Ciudad] weaves a rich narrative tapestry of present day immigrant life. The film's four unforgettable stories center on a group of day-laborers scavenging for bricks; two teenagers from the same hometown who meet in the projects and fall in love; a homeless father who tries to enroll his daughter in school; and a garment worker who seeks justice in the sweatshops"--Publisher's Web site.

MEDIA 2-5372

A Class divided 1986

Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled: The eye of the storm. Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students.

MEDIA 2-1774

Classification 197

Drs. Robert Karplus and Celia Stendler Lavatelli use Piagetian classification tasks to demonstrate how children's ability to use categories develops during middle childhood. The tasks ilIllustrate the preoperational and concrete stages of classification including multiple classification, class inclusion and hierarchical classification, based on Piaget's developmental theory.

MEDIA 2-2407

Clockwork 1981

Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of "scientific management" in the early 20th century. Explains the techniques Taylor devised to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines.

MEDIA 2-2636

"Coup de foudre" 1998

Set in Lyons in the 1950's, this is the story of Madeleine and Lena who are trapped in a rut of middle-class complacency. Their relationship deepens into a dependency that eventually bursts the confines of the provincial society around them.

MEDIA 2-5357

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange 198-

A group of workers take over a publishing house when the owner, Batala, absconds. When he returns to resume control, one of the workers, Lange, kills him.

MEDIA 2-348

Cul de sac a suburban war story 2002

Combining newsreel footage and contemporary interviews, this film begins with the news story of Shawn Nelson, the man who, in May 1995, emerged from a mineshaft dug in his backyard to seize a 60 ton tank and rampage through the streets of his suburban San Diego neighborhood. This is extended to the larger story of this defense-industry dependent working class community from the 1950's to the 1990's, during which time it decayed into a desperate strip-mall wasteland. Interviewees sketch the rise and fall of the one-time boomtown, tracing the neighborhood's social ills to World War II, the Vietnam War, and recent industry layoffs.

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Czlowiek z marmuru Man of marble 1990

The man of marble takes the form of an investigation into a man's life through recollections of several characters. A filmmaker uncovers the explosive facts behind a once-celebrated worker's elevation to "stardom" his subsequent downfall and disgrace and his eventual disappearance.

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Les dames du Bois de Bologne 1995

A woman who is growing apart from her lover finds he is also bored with the relationship. This disturbs her and she introduces him to a woman he finds appealing who has been a prostitute, a damaging circumstance to one of his class.

MEDIA 2-5328

De cierta manera 1988?

As two young lovers become acquainted with each other's habits and personalities, they also struggle to reshape their outmoded, middle-class values to conform with the belief system engendered by the Revolution.

MEDIA 2-361

Deadly deception General Electric, nuclear weapons and our environment 1991

Shows activists working to inform the public and to stop what they feel are the General Electric Company's dangerous activities at their nuclear weapons facilities. Plant workers claim to have been poisoned by radiation and asbestos and neighboring homes have experienced concerns and birth defects.

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Disguised as paupers 2001

A class of rich industrialists has emerged in Third World countries who disregard environmental treaties and secure international aid by claiming they are "poor" and need special dispensations.

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The double day 1975

Interviews with Mexican factory workers, Argentine maids, Bolivian miners' wives, and Venezuelan women in a consciousness-raising session, examine the effects of the social and economic systems on the lives of these women - their status on the job, their family relationships and values, and the socialization process to which they are subjected.

MEDIA 2-1643

Drugs workplace testing 198?

Most Americans agree that drug use is a serious problem. Most workers agree that they don't want to work alongside drug abusers. People disagree on how to achieve a drug-free workplace. For some companies, drug testing appears to be the answer. Guests debate the pros, cons, and implications of work place drug testing, exploring one company's extensive drug testing program. Guests on this segment are Ted C. Kennedy, Chairman and CEO of BE&K Construction ; Cliff Palefsky, Employment Attorney ; and Bryan S. Finkle, Professor of Toxicology, University of Utah.

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E.M.B. Classics 1992

Drifters, 1929 (49 min.) / written directed, and edited by John Grierson -- Industrial Britain, 1933 (21 min.) / written, photographed, and directed by Robert Flaherty -- Song of Cevlon, 1934 (39 min.) / directed, photographed, and edited by Basil WrightDrifters is about the herring industry, and looks back to turn-of-the-century British actualities which regularly depicted work processes. Industrial Britain displays a wide variety of labor processes. The filmmakers used frequent low angle close-ups to heroicize the workers, their patience and toil. Song of Ceylon looks at a British colony from an orientalist perspective. The island provides the British with tea and the filmmakers with exotic, apparently timeless images, that match commentary written by British explorer Robert Knox, over 150 years earlier.

MEDIA 2-1986

Educating Rita 1984

A young working-class woman on the path to self-discovery enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university. She is assigned to a disillusioned English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life.

MEDIA 2-1752

Eles não usam Black Tie They don't wear black tie 1989?

The story of a São Paulo working-class family that becomes deeply divided over a strike at the factory in which both father and son, along with the son's fiancée, work.

MEDIA 2-1803

Empowering workers 1992

This program surveys various attempts to increase quality and productivity by giving employees more direct input into the work process.

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The execution 1999

"Explore capital punishment through the story of Clifford Boggess, a 30-year-old who spent almost a decade on death row. In the United States, executions have become almost routine, especially in Texas, where Boggess, a pianist, artist, class valedictorian and convicted murderer awaited the execution chamber. And while he waited, the tormented families of his two victims impatiently awaited his death in June 1998."--Container.

MEDIA 2-3949

The Eye of the storm 1970

Award winning documentary, records an innovative experiment in which a third-grade teacher divides her all-white class into "blue-eyes" and "brown-eyes" making each group superior or inferior on successive days. Demonstrates the nature and effects of bigotry by showing changes brought about in their behavior and learning patterns.

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Factory 1970

Captures the dreariness of surroudings and the monotomy of work in a jewelry factory, and focuses on the boredom and frustrations of the workers. The film graphically reminds us that the ills f the Industrial Revolution remain to be solved.

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Far away Portuguese in California 1994

A historical and cultural overview of the Portuguese presence in California. Surveys the history of Portuguese immigration to the West Coast of America and examines the important economic, social and cultural contributions of Portuguese immigrants to the dairy industry, whaling, fishing and agriculture. Concludes with a celebration of current day Portuguese customs indicative of their strong adherence to Portuguese traditions.

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Faustrecht der Freiheit Fox and his friends 1989

A gay working-class carnival entertainer whose lottery winnings attract a wealthy, upper-class lover, with whom he begins an ill-fated romance.

MEDIA 2-3480

Final offer 1985

"[Follows] Bob White, the president of the Canadian UAW, through the landmark 1984 negotiations and 13 day auto strike at General Motors .... White is caught between the hard-ball tactics of GM ... and the pressures of his own militant membership .... [A] candid look at the dynamics of collective bargaining and shop floor life." -- Publisher's flyer.

MEDIA 2-2631

Finally got the news 1970

Discusses the crucial role of the black worker in the American economy and efforts of the League of Revolutionary Black workers to build an independent black labor organization which will respond to the racism and dangerous working conditions faced by black workers in the Detroit auto industry.

MEDIA D-189

Forty two up 1999

Follows a group of Britons starting in 1964 from different economic and social backgrounds, interviewing them at the age of seven, then again at fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight, and now at forty-two to examine how close they are to achieving the dreams and ambitions of their childhood and youth.

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France, 1904-1912 the enemy below 1989

Examines the appeal of early French cinema to the working class audience and the populist themes that dominated the earliest films. Shows how bourgeois values found their way into popular cinema only with the devistataions of the First World War.

MEDIA 2-675

Frank film 1973

Combines animated sequences with two narrative sound tracks to create a series of complex, moving patterns which satirize contemporary middle-class life.

MEDIA D-395

From Harlem to Harvard a film 1982

An award-winning film made by four Harvard upperclassmen in the 1979-1980 school year. Traces the experiences of a motivated, black, middle class freshman from Harlem as he tries to succeed i- an alien environment at Harvard University.

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Gaza under siege 2001

This program also examines why the United Nations fails to criticize Israel's aggression and denies Palestinian statehood.

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Germany 1926-1932 under two flags 1989

Examines "populist" cinema in Germany of the 20s showing the influence of Soviet cinema in the German social workers' movements.

MEDIA 2-677

God of killers 2000

Wu Viet, a Vietnamese refugee trying to reach Hong Kong, discovers that his fellow refugees are mysteriously disappearing from the camp. He escapes to the Philippines with Shun Ching, a Vietnamese girl, only to encounter more trouble. The girl is kidnapped and Chow is forced to work for a vicious and morally bankrupt gangland boss.

MEDIA 10-153

Goodbye Columbus 1969

A poor Bronx librarian falls in love with a pampered, Jewish debutante from Westchester. Their efforts to cross class lines amid parental opposition create an atmosphere for bittersweet comedy.

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Grand illusion 1984

Two French Air Corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in escape attempts. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape. An antiwar film that treats the disillusionment of prisoners and captors alike.

MEDIA 2-148

Great Britain, 1900-1912 along the great divide 1989

Uses extremely rare and obscure films to explore the origins of cinema in Great Britain. Examines the development of filmmaking techniques and how the early films reflected the social concerns and class divisions in British society of the period.

MEDIA 2-672

The green pastures 1993

An all-Black cast presents Marc Connelly's religious allegory, based on the premise of a Southern Black preacher telling Bible stories to his Sunday school class in terms of the world they are familiar with.

MEDIA 2-6201

The grievance 1954

Depicts, step-by-step, the processing of a worker's grievance until it is settled by an arbitrator.

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Gung ho 1986

When Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's defunct auto factory, he's a hero. But when the Japanese hire him to enforce their policies among his American co-workers, he goes from hero to zero.

MEDIA 2-490

H2 worker 1990

Each year 10,000 Caribbean men are selectively chosen by American sugar corporations to harvest sugar cane for six months in Florida under temporary "H-2" visas. "H-2 worker" is a film exposing the brutal, systematic exploitation of Jamaican guest workers by the Florida sugar cane industry.

MEDIA 2-1700

Hamsin Hot wind 1988

The problem of Arab-Jewish relations is portrayed in this study of a Jewish landowner and his Arab worker. Set in the Galilee, northern Israel, in 1982.

MEDIA 2-5695

Harlan County U.S.A 1989

Focusing on the efforts of 180 coal-mining families to win a United Mine Workers contract at the Brookside Mine in Harlan Co., Ky., the film documents the 3-year strike showing the early confrontations on the picket line, the increasing incidence of violence including the murder of a young striker, and, finally, the signing of the contract. Utilizes both historical footage and footage filmed on location to compare and contrast working conditions and organizing efforts of the 1930's with the 1970's.

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Harvest of shame 1991

Documentary showing the degradation and exploitation of migrant farmworkers in the United States. This broadcast led to the passage of laws protecting the worker's rights.

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Heaven will protect the working girl 1993

Period still and motion pictures and words derived from interviews, memoirs, newspapers and other sources are assembled to show the life of immigrant shirtwaist makers in New York City during the first decade of the 20th century. Illustrates the strike movement and their arrests.

MEDIA 2-2087

Hedda 1987

Frustrated by the pointlessness of her middle class married life, the strong-willed Hedda realizes her only satisfaction comes from manipulating others. Casting an insidious net of influence over both her passive husband and a volatile former lover, Hedda is soon overwhelmed by her own cynical schemes as they spiral out of control--with tragic results.

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The Helping hand 1984

Looks at how the New Deal helped to create jobs during the Depression. Interviews former Civilian Conservation Corps workers who benefited from these programs.

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The hitch-hiker 1953

Two middle-class American men enroute to Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip find their lives threatened when they pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a fugitive maniacal killer.

MEDIA 2-3485

Home is struggle historias paralelas 1991

Explores the lives of women who have immigrated to the United States from different Latin American countries for very different reasons, economic and political. In sharing their stories they present an absorbing picture of the construction of Latina identity and the immigrant experience.

MEDIA 2-2777

Hommage à la danse baroque 1991

La bourgogne -- Bourrée d'Achille -- Aimable vainqueur -- L'allemande -- Menuet d'Alcide -- La contredanse [a2] -- The favorite -- Sung gavotte (L'Affilard) -- La mariée -- Gigue de Roland -- The gavot -- Le passepied -- La forlane -- Rigaudon des Vaisseaux -- La Savoye -- Menuet à 4 -- Sarabande pour femme -- A contredansePresents a performance by a group of music students from the Dept. of Music at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The performances were a class project by members of a seminar entitled Baroque Dance for musicians. Baroque music of the late 17th and 18th centuries from France and England are both played and danced by the same group of students taking turns playing instruments and dancing. Choreography of the period has been carefully studied and reproduced and the students do a variety of dances solo, in pairs, or in groups, dressed in period costumes. The program is gracefully woven together with the reading of a long 18th century poem entitled The Art of Dancing, by Soame Jenyns.

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Housing problems 1935

This short film is an early sound documentary classic. It explores the horrors and evils of British urban housing in the 1930's through unrehearsed interviews with slum dwellers who discuss their housing conditions.

MEDIA 3-141

I am somebody 1970

Focuses on the 1969 hospital strike in Charleston, S.C. The film reports on the coalition of labor and civil rights groups which joined forces to support the organizing drive of Local 1199, Drug and Hospital Union, to win recognition for hospital workers.

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Images of women in American society in the twentieth century 1941-1975

Vol. 1. The Bob Cummings show (30 min.), I love Lucy (25 min.), Ozzie and Harriet (25 min.), The Mary Tyler Moore show (20 min.), -- v. 2. Women in TV commercials lecture (40 min.), Women in defense short (15 min.), Father knows best (25 min.), The Donna Reed show (25 min.) -- v. 3. Julia (5 min.), Amos 'n Andy show (25 min.), Duffy's tavern (25 min.)Deals with the stereotypical "traditional" images of women in American society, from the 1940's to the 1970's. The same theme emerges in all of the television shows and commercials: women should be beautiful, good, and interested only in being subordinate to the needs of men and family. These "standards" appear to apply to American women, regardless of race or social class. These film clips show how, despite the great progress that American women have made in this century, sexual steoreotypes still persist.

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In service to America 1995

By 1967, poverty warriors increase the sophistication of their tactics at the same time that a number of outspoken opponents rise to national prominence. This program highlights the beginning of Legal Services and VISTA, two programs that combined individual action with the idea of volunteerism. Lawyers team up with migrant farm workers in California to fight for better education, health care and working conditions, and VISTA volunteers and local residents organize against strip mining in Appalachia. Both stories raise significant questions about activities the government funds in the name of fighting poverty.

MEDIA 2-4089

In the land of plenty 1999

Provides a human portrait of workers at the mercy of a greedy system as it follows Mexican migrant agricultural laborers in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California.

MEDIA 2-6038

In white collar America Motion Picture

A documentary describing the white collar worker at an insurance company in Atlanta. Looks at the life styles of individual workers at work and at leisure, and depicts some of their ambitions, expectations, and frustrations.

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Information withheld ; Shifters 1993?

Information witheld dramatizes the nature of signs and symbols in an ascending order of complexity, from traffic signals and hieroglyphs to Michelangelo's painting of The Madonna and child with St. Joseph. Shifters dismantles the narrative mode and distinguishes six recurrent themes, including Egypt, Napoleon, the scholars, the abuse of a cat and a melodrama. The subtext of this videotape concerns the oppositions of imperial power and the working class suggested through architecture emblematic of them.

DANA 418

The Inheritance 1965

Presents a view of America as seen through the eyes of its working people. Uses still photographs, as well as silent film and newsreel footage, accompanied by folk songs and popular music, to show conditions since 1900 as found in the sweatshops, coal mines, and weaving mills, and as evidence in the labor struggles of the thirties and the civil rights movement of the sixties.

MEDIA 2-1865

Inheritance Motion picture 1974

Contrasts contemporary work patterns with those of preindustrial days, describing the diminished importance of the individual worker in industrial societies. Compares factory system labor with the work and lives of five American indigenous crafts people. Featured are shovelmaker, blacksmith, basketweaver, lacrosse stick makers and tinsmith.

MEDIA. 6-37 6-57

Irish theater raw bones and poetry 2001

This program describes the battle for an authentic Irish theater, a theater of the working class, with realistic language and gritty social and political content.

DOUGLASS 241

The Italian straw hat Un chapeau de paille d'Italie 1985

Noted as one of the gems of comedy...a model of visual wit, jabbing fun at the pretensions of the middle class. This satirical comedy of manners concerning a young man who, on his wedding day, becomes entangled with a married lady and her lover and has to find an exact replica of a special straw hat, essential to saving the lady's honor.

MEDIA 2-1393

The Jewel in the crown 1993

1. Crossing the river -- 2. The Bibighar Gardens ; Questions of loyalty (Mayapore 1942) -- 3. Incidents at a wedding (Pankot 1943) ; The regimental silver (Mirat 1943) -- 4. Ordeal by fire ; Daughters of the regiment -- 5. The day of the scorpion ; The towers of silence -- 6. An evening at the Maharanee's ; Travelling companions -- 7. The moghul room ; Pandora's box -- 8. A division of the spoilsTells the epic story of men and women caught up in a struggle of race and class during the last five years of British rule in India.

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A Job at Ford's 1993

Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed.

MEDIA. 2-2222 2-4176

John Wideman a conversation with John Wideman 1992

Wideman candidly discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominantly white, middle class literary audience. He writes because "African Americans have to carry alternative versions of reality in our heads and the model for doing that exists in art.".

DANA. MEDIA 366 2-1975

Le jour se leve Daybreak 1939

A worker shoots a man and locks himself in his room. In a series of flashbacks, the worker remembers the unhappy love affair with a young girl and resulting complications which led to the murder.

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The Joy that kills 1988

The story of a woman in the upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband.

MEDIA 2-476

Jungle fever 1998

A black architect begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors.

MEDIA DANA 10-47 1403

The killing floor 1997

Frank Custer is a young black man from rural Mississippi who, in 1917, came north to make his fortune at the beginning of World War I. There, the only job he can get is at one of Chicago's meat-packing plants, working in the slaughtering area called the killing floor, where he is caught up in a war between the "packers" and those trying to form a labor union.

MEDIA 2-3441

Kino-Pravda Enthusiasm 199-

Kino-Pravda (1922, 14 min., b&w) -- Enthusiasm (1931, 67 min., b&w)Kino-Pravda: Consists of a record of Soviet life edited into a unique genre of mixed documentary, animation and reviews and provides a record of the Revolution's social achievements. Enthusiasm: Celebrates the enthusiasm with which the peasants and miners of the Don River basin in Russia fulfilled their first five-year plan quotas following the October Revolution.

MEDIA D-452

L'Argent 1993

Through the maneuverings of some upperclass boys and shopkeepers, a working class man's life is ruined. Based on a story by Tolstoy, L'Argent exposes the greed and corruption of the rich who ignore the effect of their uncaring attitude on the poor.

MEDIA 2-5381

Last Pullman car 1996

The story of the closing of the last factory in America to manufacture subway and railroad cars. Shows the confrontation between Pullman workers fighting to save their jobs and the modern Pullman conglomerate.

DANA 925

Lear '87 archive (condensed) 2002

"In 1987, the formidable Mabou Mines Theatrical Collaborative began a two-week workshop on a new 'King Lear' - a fully gender-reversed one - directed by Lee Breuer and featuring Ruth Maleczech in the title role of Lear. Jill Godmilow's unique archive of their work on "Lear" makes for a creative joy ride ... a master class on avant garde theater at its very best"--Set container.

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Leaving home 199?

Examines the Mexico-U.S. Free Trade Agreement by looking at how workers on both sides of the border have been affected by the maquiladora program. Economists, free trade advocates, and Latino community leaders debate on the future of free trade.

MEDIA 2-2188

Lightning over Braddock a Rustbowl fantasy 1989

A feature film done in a semi-documentary style. The story concerns a director (Buba) trying to make a film with a temperamental actor in poor health (Caru). Another theme proposes that myths and fantasies exist that prevent people in the "rust bowl" region of Northeastern Pennsylvania from getting control over their lives, and also that the link between individual and community in U.S. society is vulnerable because of society's apparent preoccupation with media images and fame.

MEDIA 2-6147

The Lights of Luanda 1999

Reconstruction and reconciliation: The political process -- Sheltering returning refugees -- Providing basic services -- Rebuilding public institutions -- Revitalising the economy -- Retraining and reconciliation -- Possibilities of peaceLights of Luanda deals with a country (Angola) ravaged by over 20 years of civil war and conflict. Street children are a problem, and factories, churches, and schools lie abandoned. Despite great natural wealth (oil fields and diamond mines), Angola's economy is in ruins. Reconstruction and reconciliation: Examines the devastation caused by world wars and political conflict, including the traumatic effect of war on the individuals left behind. Shows the complexity of post-war disaster management, and shows how Habitat can help in this area.

MEDIA 2-5131

Looking back at you 1998

This film examines the photography and photojournalism of Sebastiao Salgado. Particular emphasis is on his book, "Workers". Archival footage of Salgado's life and commentary from artists, photographer, etc. is also included.

DANA 1667

Mamma Roma 1995

In Pasolini's second feature, a woman attempts to leave her life as a prostitute and provide a middle class life for the teenage son with whom she's reunited after many years.

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Managing diversity 1992

This program looks at how the influx of women, minorities and immigrants into the American workforce is transforming corporations and labor unions.

MEDIA 2-1943

Mariposas en el andamio Butterflies on the scaffold 1997

A documentary examining the issues gays and transvestites face in the context of evolving attitudes towards homosexuality in Cuba. It is a highly unusual look at how a group of working class drag queens in a Havana suburb have become an integral part of their neighborhood.

MEDIA 2-5229

Martha & Ethel 1995

Through riveting interviews, vintage photographs, home movies and newsreel footage, Martha & Ethel chronicles the lives of two nannies and the upper-class families they served from the 1940's to the present.

MEDIA 2-5452

Mean things happening 1993

In the American democracy of the 1930's two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union. On the tenant farms and in the steel favtories working peoplw asserted their citizenship in the midst of great economic turmoil and a tide of government reform.

MEDIA. 2-2226 2-4180

Metropolis 1984

The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.

MEDIA DANA MEDIA 2-34 614 10-165

Mickey Mouse monopoly 2002

Disney's media dominance -- Disney's gender representations -- Disney's race representations -- Disney's commercialization of children's cultureCommentary by Henry A. Giroux, Alvin Poussaint, Justin Lewis, Gail Dines, Diane Levin, Carolyn Newberger, Elizabeth Hadley, Jacqueline Maloney, Jack Shaheen, Deirdre Almeida, Marisa Peralta. Takes a close and critical look at the animated films produced by the Disney Company and the cultural values and assumptions propagated in terms of race, gender and class. Includes contributions from cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, educators and children.

MEDIA 10-133

A Migrant's heart 1996

An English actor who's parents came from India and then migrated to East Africa and finally England returns to visit New Delhi, India, to seek his roots, and to work through ethnic identity problems which can result when one is caught between two worlds.

MEDIA 2-5759

Mill times 2002

Live action segments follow the Industrial Revolution from Manchester, England to Lowell, Massachusetts. The animated story centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first textile mill was established in America.

MEDIA 2-4016a

Modern times 1985

Satire on the effects of the machine age on the lives of workers which blends comedy with moments of pathos. Charlie works on an assembly line, finds a girl friend, goes to jail, has various other jobs and becomes unemployed, but refuses to be defeated.

MEDIA DANA 2-132 498

Monty Python's The meaning of life ; Crimson permanent assurance 1983

Monty Python, the English comedy group, take a bawdy and irreverent look at religion, gluttony, birth control and sex. Also, there is a 10 minute film called Crimson Permanent Assurance, which has a group of elderly financial institution workers mutinying and taking on other financial institutions.

MEDIA 2-1343

Mother 1988

A portrait of silent sacrifice and secret strength. The Fukuharas' struggles reflect the hardships facing many working class families during the postwar era.

DANA. MEDIA 521 2-907

Mr. Sears' catalogue 1989

Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country.

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My beautiful laundrette 1995

Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches.

MEDIA 7-153

Native land 197-

A combination of documentary-style narrative sequences and dramatic scenes, Native Land relates American history and the Bill of Rights to the labor struggles during the 1930's.

MEDIA D-381

Native Land (Motion picture) 197-

A combination of documentary-style narrative sequences and dramatic scenes, Native Land relates American history and the Bill of Rights to the labor struggles during the 1930's.

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New Deal, New York 1993

During his first 100 days in office, President Roosevelt created numerous new federal agencies giving jobs and relief to people and transforming the American landscape with public works projects like the CCC. New York's Mayor LaGuardia, the immigrant's son, and FDR, the American aristocrat, were unlikely partners, yet together the expanded and redefined the role of government in people's lives. Includes archival film footage.

MEDIA. 2-2224 2-4178

No les pedimos un viaje a la luna We aren't asking for the moon 1986

The collapse of a Mexican dressmaking factory during an earthquake causes the surviving dressmakers to become more aware of their common bond. The unsafe working conditions and exploitation by the factory owners are highlighted by the tragedy of the quake, instigating the dressmakers to form a union.

MEDIA 2-726

Norma Rae 1996

A poor Southern textile worker with a disreputable past, who courageously supports the Northern union organizer in a final successful attempt to unionize the last major non-union textile factory in the South.

MEDIA 2-3637

A nos amours 1985

Winner of the 1983 "CESAR" (The French "OSCAR") for best film. This is a powerful moving study of an 18 year old working class girl who enters a series of casual sexual relationships and experiences remorse at the loss of childhood innocence.

MEDIA 2-248

A nous la liberté 1981?

A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of exprisoners, one of whom, an ambitions crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually, both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former lives as vagabonds.

MEDIA 2-191

Of hopscotch and little girls stolen childhood 2001

This provocative program features girls from around the globe who share their stories of abuse and neglect, and also their hopes and dreams, in a world that too often considers them second-class citizens.

MEDIA 2-5194

On the line, 1924 1998

When Henry Ford's Model T rolled onto the scene in 1908, it was inconceivable that it would ever be anything more than a plaything for the wealthy. But mass production and later Ford's moving assembly line, allowed manufacturers to produce goods at affordable prices that made them accessible to a new mass market. This film follows the acceleration of mass production, from the days of master craftsmen to the pressures and benefits of assembly-line work, to the growing strength of "people power" as labor and management struggled to divide the fruits of increased productivity.

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The organizer 1997

"In 19th century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory"--Container.

MEDIA 2-3635

Organizing America a history of trade unions in the U.S 1994

Broadly tracing American labor history, this program incorporates interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage to provide a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues including health and safety conditions, the minimum wage, discrimination, job security and strikes. It presents the struggle of American labor against the backdrop of major events that shaped American society as a whole: world wars, the industrial revolution, immigration, unemployment, class conflict, child labor, women in the workplace, civil rights and the emergence of high technology.

MEDIA 2-3804

The other side El otro lado 2001

Examines the devastating impact of Mexican-United States migration. This program looks at villagers who strive to ensure that their children will no longer have to migrate to have a better life.

MEDIA 2-5917

La Patagonia rebelde Rebellion in Patagonia 198?

Film based on actual historical events involving the brutal military suppression of a series of strikes by rural workers in the southernmost province of Argentina in the early 1920's.

MEDIA 2-2812

Paul Robeson 1994

"Paul Robeson was one of America's famous artists. In this program, you will see how he used his international acclaim to focus world attention on racial injustices suffered by African-Americans. His efforts world-wide for working class people in the 1930s, 40s and 50s is highlighted."--Container.

DANA 1250

People like us social class in America 2001

A documentary examining how social class plays a role in the lives of all Americans. Traveling across the country presenting stories of family traditions, class mobility and different lifestyle choices, it makes connections between daily life and the larger issues of class in America.

MEDIA 2-5850

People of the Cumberland 1938

Shows how the Highlander Folklore School in Tennessee helped to build workers' consciousness, train organizers, and preserve the cultural traditions of the area.

MEDIA 3-121

Poland democracy and change 1991

Examines how three Polish families have been affecte by the move away from communist rule and economic order. Through interviews with members of each family, three aspects of this transition are explored: how rapidly chage has been experienced, how individual autonomy has been enhanced, and what democracy means to each of the families.

MEDIA 2-2487

A Question of color color consciousness in Black America 1992

Examines the issue of color consciousness within the black community. This film explores a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal. A variety of African Americans give their experiences and attitudes towards the question of color.

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Ragtime 1996

This vivid, high-energy human tableau interweaves the lives and passions of a middle class, small town family against the scandals and events of a transitional America in 1906.

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Responding to misbehavior 1993

Examines various classroom disruptions and analyzes some techniques that enable the teacher to deal with misbehaving students without interrupting the class.

MEDIA 2-5656

The Richest man in the world Andrew Carnegie 1997

Using archival film and photographs; interviews with historians, writers, and relatives; and new cinematography, this film documents the life of Andrew Carnegie from his impoverished beginnings in Dunfermline, Scotland to his family's arrival in Pittsburgh in 1848.

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Riso amaro Bitter rice 198?

In the rice fields of the Italian Po Valley a thief on the run meets a girl who tries to steal his loot.

MEDIA 2-2649

Road to freedom 1994

When racial violence results in the rape of a young woman and the brutal murder of a fellow church deacon, Vernon Johns calls to his middle class black congregation to stand up for their rights.

DANA 1170

Roosevelt, New Jersey 1983

Explores the history of a unique community, created in 1936 under the name Jersey Homesteads with funds from the U.S. Resettlement Administration. In this radical social and economic experiment, 120 families of Jewish garment workers moved from New York City to settle in the cooperative, which included a coat factory, and a consumer outlet. Includes archival footage and interviews with the original cooperators and their children.

MEDIA D-357

The Rouge 199?

When built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. This documentary gives a first-hand account of how workers spent their lives in the factory.

MEDIA 2-5738

Rude boy 199?

In this mixture of concert film and social documentary about the class system as it exists in the British Commonwealth, the rock group The Clash performs many of their hit songs while lashing out against this oppression. The mood is one of disillusion and political failure in England, as an increasing number of unemployed and aimless youths see little or no chance of excitement or purpose. The film features numerous live concert performances of The Clash as well as offstage and informal performance footage.

MUSIC 430

Rue Cases-Nègres Sugar Cane Alley 1995

Portrays the lives of a sensitive, mischievious orphaned boy and his determined grandmother. They live in a shantytown with other black families who do back-breaking work on a sugar plantation in Martėnėnque. Grandma knows that eleven-year old José has only one chance for a better life: education.

DANA MEDIA 883 2-324

Salt of the earth 1987

Semi-documentary covering the events of a bitter, year-long strike of Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico. Shot on location in 1953 by a group of blacklisted filmmakers and a largely nonprofessional cast.

MEDIA. 2-479 2-3284

Scar of shame 1993

In no film was the racial theme more apparent than in this story about an ill-matched marriage between a black concert pianist and a poor, lower class young black woman. Secretly ashamed of her, the young man keeps his wife hidden from his socially-prominent middle-class mother. Despite the melodrama, it is a strong statement on the issues of class and the color caste system which existed within the African-American community, as well as probing questions of ambition and authority.

MEDIA 2-2348

Sewing woman 1982

Tells the story of one woman's determination to leave war-torn China and build a new life in the United States. Based on the life of Zem Ping Dong who worked in sewing factories for over thirty years.

MEDIA D-328

Ships of shame 1999?

The focus of this video is on India, where thousands of workers are risking their lives breaking up the ships the West has discarded.

MEDIA 2-6021

Sidet forced exile 1991

Presents the stories of three Ethiopian women who each sought refuge in the Sudan. Tells how they have managed to survive displacement and creat lives for themselves in exile.

MEDIA 2-3877

Skills crisis 1992

This program focuses on the growing mismatch between available high-tech jobs and workers lacking basic skills.

MEDIA 2-1940

Smithereens 1984

Wren is 19 and comes from a working class, stifling world that offers only disillusionment and drudgery. So she flees to New York to pursue her desperate dreams of rock 'n' roll glory.

MEDIA 2-282

So many lives Tantas vidas : una historia 1984?

A community of poor and working class women speak about their concerns -- the difficult realities of daily life, including abusive relationships, children, and welfare.

MEDIA 2-724

Song of freedom 1997

A musical drama that explores a successful concert singer's discovery that he is the descendant of a West African queen whose tribe is now in need of a leader. Includes four vocal numbers sung by Paul Robeson and features many scenes depicting interracial working-class camaraderie.

MEDIA 2-3446

Song of the canary 1978

A documentary about the health hazards to workers at a chemical plant in California and at cotton mills in North and South Carolina. Probes the issues of government regulation, medical research, workers' compensation and the actions of employers, unions and workers, themselves, when confronted with life-threatening dangers on the job.

MEDIA 2-1277

Stanley & Iris 1997

Love story about two lonely strangers who open a new chapter in their lives together. Stanley is held back by his inability to read or write, while Iris is paralyzed emotionally by the loss of her husband. Together they set out to help each other, and end up learning to live and, ultimately, love again.

DANA 1409

Steelmakers 1974

Explores the history, tradition and vlaues of Roebling, N.J., a former company steel town.

MEDIA D-219

Still a brother: inside the Negro middle class (Motion picture) 1968

Discusses the behavior and aspirations of the Negro middle class, the nature of the society which parallels but is completely separate from the white counterpart, problems of housing in prestigious communities and resorts, the rise of black culture, and the role of religion in a period of black nationalism.

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Strike Stachka 198?

Set in pre-World War I Tsarist Russia, the story depicts a strike by factory workers and its brutal suppression by the authorities. The hero and principal character is the mass of workers.

MEDIA 2-1296

Time for revenge 1986

A demolition worker at a remote copper mine rigs a dynamite accident to blackmail the corrupt company, by pretending to have been struck speechless in a shock from the blast.

MEDIA 2-371

To sir, with love 1984

A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.

MEDIA 2-2804

Total recall 1997

A worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims.

MEDIA 2-3748

Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto Swept away 1996

A wealthy upperclass capitalist and a working-class deckhand on her yacht are marooned on an uninhabited island for several weeks. The woman becomes totally dependent on the man for survival, falls in love with him, and the two temporarily reverse their roles.

DANA 1539

Trouble on Fashion Avenue 1982

Explores the history and present state of New York City's garment industry. Includes a look at the conditions of labor in modern day sweat shops which exploit a new generation of immigrants and the influence of organized crime on management and in the garment workers' union itself.

MEDIA 10

The two nations of black America 1998

Measures the economic and social success of the civil rights movement and the gap between middle class and poor African-Americans.

DANA. MEDIA 1792 2-3396

Ultimate athlete pushing the limit 1996

Find out what it takes to be a world class athlete including how they train, think, triumph, bounce back from defeat, and deal with the business side of sports. Meet Carl Lewis, track & field; Lance Armstrong, cyclist; Meng Fei, Chinese gymnast; Mary Pierce, tennis great; members of the Santa Monica Track and Field Club, and many other athletic superstars from past and present.

DANA 1127

Union maids [videorecording}by Julia Reichert, James Klein, and Miles Mogulescu 1976

The life stories of 3 Chicago area women, now in their 60's, who rose from the rank and file to become union organizers in the 30's. The stories are interspersed with archival footage, still photographs, and union songs of the 30's.

MEDIA. 2-1640 6-52

United States, 1902-1914 tomorrow the world 1989

Examines early filmmaking in the United States. Shows how America's immigrant masses were the earliest audience for films but also the ridiculed and stereotyped subjects of these films. Illustrates how American filmmakers discovered narrative but avoided social content and criticism as the middle class came to dominate the film audience. Includes excerpts from numerous erly films.

MEDIA 2-673

The uprising of '34 1995

A revolution of hope -- The consequencesA documentary on the working conditions of cotton mill workers in the South and events surrounding the General Textile Strike of 1934, the effects of which are still felt sixty years later.

MEDIA 2-3391

La Vie est belle 1991

Tells the rags to riches story of Kourou, a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Although the film is primarily entertainment, it reveals much about class divisions, male-female relations, the desires of the urban poor, and the economic and social problems confronting rural immigrants to the cities of Zaire.

DANA. MEDIA 859 2-3615

We are not your monkeys 1998?

We are not your monkeys: Short film of song offering the dalit (lower caste) perspective on the Ramayana version of Indic history and the caste system. Occupation, millworker: Textile mills, once the foundation of Bombay's economy, now find it difficult to survive in a changing economic climate. This documentary examines the struggle by millworkers to reopen a mill in 1992 after a four-year lockout by management.

MEDIA 2-3696

We think so Asi pensamos 198-

Looks at a group of Guatemalen agricultural workers who formed an agricultural union. The peasants were living on an estate, fighting poverty and starvation. The peasants wanted to buy the estate, but the owner refused to sell it in parts. In order to survive, the peasants have organized themselves into an agricultural community.

MEDIA 4-524

Welcome to North Korea 2001

Film shows a regime where 20 million people live in poverty, some on the brink of starvation and disease, while the former dictator Kim II Sung and his son built extravagant monuments to reflect their power. Also looks at efforts at re-unification between the North and South.

MEDIA 2-6156

Welfare reform's new deal 1998

Discusses the impact of welfare reform legislation on women, children, adolescents, immigrants, workers, students, people with HIV/AIDS, the elderly and the disabled.

DANA 1696

What could you do with a nickel? 1981

Follows the efforts of Black and Hispanic housekeepers to organize the country's first legally recognized union for domestic workers in the South Bronx in 1977.

MEDIA D-314

When Mother comes home for Christmas-- 1995

Josephine is a migrant worker from Sri Lanka appointed to take full time care of little Isadora in Greece. Josephine's own children are left to a less fortunate fate in the home country. After an absence of 8 years, Josephine travels to Sri Lanka to visit her children for a month and the camera captures the complicated feelings of loss and longing that are the inevitable companions to this transitory union.

MEDIA 2-5499

Who built America? 1987

Pt. 1. The big H -- pt. 2. Tea party etiquette -- pt. 3. Daughters of freemen -- pt. 4. Doing as they can -- pt. 5. Five points -- pt. 6. Doctor Toer's amazing magic lantern show -- pt. 7. 1877: the grand army of starvationExplores the social history of working Americans. Concentrates on events and issues of the 19th century.

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Who remembers Mama? 1978

Considers the plight of an older, middle-class woman as she faces life after divorce with little financial, legal, or social protection. Outlines some potential legislative solutions, which seek to provide self-help programs of counseling and job creation as well as a redistribution of social security benefits.

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Winnie Wright, age 11 2000

Winnie Wright, age 11 / Kartemquin Films ; by Suzanne Davenport ... [et al.] (1974, 26 min., col.) -- Now we live on Clifton / Kartemquin Films ; Allied Film & Video ; by Jerry Blumenthal ... [et al.] (1974, 26 min., col.) -- Parents / Kartemquin Films ; InterMedia ; a Project: Open Line film ; producers, Gerald Temaner, Gordon Quinn (1968, 22 min., b&w)Winnie Wright, age 11: Focuses on a family in a working class neighborhood in transition from white to black. Now we live on Clifton: Explores the feelings of children in an integrated neighborhhod undergoing gentrification. Parents: Examines the generation gap from the viewpoint of young men in a parish youth group.

MEDIA 2-5323

The women of summer the Bryn Mawr school for women workers, 1921-1938 1985

Weaves together oral histories, unearthed diaries and letters to reconstruct an educational experiment of the 1920s and 30s in which women from the mills and factories went to Bryn Mawr College for a special summer session.

MEDIA D-337

Working 1991

The industrial workers, China's elite class under Communism, were guaranteed complete security for life--until the 1980s when the "iron rice bowl" system was replaced by the "responsibility system." Now the most productive workers reap the larger rewards.

MEDIA 2-2328

Working girls 1987

With humour and candor, producer Lizzie Borden recreates a typical day in the life of a middle class brothel in New York City, and lets the viewer share the experience of women paid to guarantee satisfaction as told from a woman's perspective. The film treats prostitutes less as stereotypes and more as people--people with feelings, concerns, goals and dreams--just like anybody else.

MEDIA 2-1868