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May Day Labor Film Festival

Continue the Festival
ALL YEAR!

Have your own Labor Film Festival
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The films listed below are available locally on VHS or DVD

KEY

PL = available at Santa Cruz Public Library

VV = available at Video Video (Soquel Av. at Morrissey, Santa Cruz)
Labor Film Festival Special $1 rental during May

RW = shown during a past Reel Work Film Festival season

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9 to 5 (1980, 110 min) VV, RW
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin & Dolly Parton as office workers standing up to the boss

American Dream (1990, 98 min) PL
Barbara Kopple's documentary of P-9 meatpackers' strike at Hormel

At the River I Stand (1993, 56 min) PL
Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to support Memphis sanitation workers' 1968 strike

The Battleship Potemkin (1925, 69 min) PL
Eisenstein silent classic of sailors' revolt during Russian revolution

The Big One (1997, 90 min) PL, VV
Michael Moore protecting the earth from the scum of corporate America

Brassed Off (1996, 109 min) PL, VV
drama with hardships of English coal miners' lives in the background

Bread and Roses (2000, 110 min) VV
Ken Loach drama of Justice for Janitors organizing in LA

Come See the Paradise (1990, 138 min) PL, VV
labor agitation in Japanese concentration camps

The Cradle Will Rock (1999, 134 min) PL, VV
Orson Wells Mercury Theatre WPA Project

The Devil And Miss Jones (1941, 92 min) VV
comedy of 1937 NY department store strike with Jean Arthur & Robert Cummings

Dollar A Day, 10 Cents a Dance (1984, 30 min) PL
Filipino immigrant farmworkers in California by local filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn

Eight Men Out (1988, 119 min) VV
John Sayles portrayal of Black Sox baseball players in 1918 World Series

The Fight In the Fields (1997, 115 min) PL
Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' struggle

Germinal (1993, 170 min) VV
coalminers strike in 18th century France

Grapes of Wrath (1940, 128 min) PL, VV
dustbowl refugees migrate to California in the 30s, from Steinbeck novel

Hard Traveling (1985, 99 min) PL
depression era farmworkers' hardships

Harlan County, USA (1976, 103 min) PL
Barbara Kopple film of violent Kentucky coalminers' strike

Hoffa (1992, 140 min) VV
Jack Nicholson in story of legendary union figure Jimmy Hoffa

Hospital (1970, 84 min) VV
health care work at Metropolitan Hospital, NYC

How Green Was My Valley (1941, 118 min) PL
pre-union Welsh miners at turn of the century

Live Nude Girls Unite (2000, 75 min) VV
topless dancers in SF organize a union

Matewan (1987, 132 min) PL, VV, RW
John Sayles classic of a union organizer who comes to an embattled Appalachian mining town

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle (1982, 59 min) PL
organizing of the first Black trade union - the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Modern Times (1936, 87 min) PL, VV
silent Charile Chaplin satire on the struggle to live in modern industrial society

Newsies (1992, 121 min) VV
Disney film of young newspaper carriers organizing

Norma Rae (1979, 110 min) PL
Sally Field as an Alabama textile worker unionizing her mill

October Sky (1999, 108 min) PL
drama with hardships of Appalachian coal miners' lives in the background

Office Space (1999, 89 min) VV
comedy of workers who rebel against their greedy boss

The Replacements (2000, 118 min) VV
pros on strike, football team owners hire everyday guys to play

Roger and Me (1989, 91 min) PL, VV
Michael Moore pursues GM CEO Roger Smith

Salt of the Earth (1954, 94 min) PL
Hispanic miners' wives help win strike in New Mexico

Silkwood (1983, 131 min) PL, VV
Meryl Streep as whistle-blowing worker murdered over corporate health & safety violations

Swing Shift (1984, 100 min) VV
factory workers on the home front during WWII

Union Maids (1976, 50 min) PL
three rank-and-file women in the 30's become militant organizers

Watsonville On Strike (1989, 65 min) PL
local 1986 cannery workers strike by local filmmaker Jon Silver

With Babies and Banners (1978, 45 min) PL
story of the women's emergency brigade in '37 GM sitdown strike

The Wrath of Grapes (15 min) PL
UFW video on pesticide use in grapes