Salt of the earth
(DVD)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Special features: three short films: Hollywood ten by John Berry, a 1950 documentary which provides a closer look at the ten blacklisted film writers and directors who defied the U.S. government by refusing to testify during the House anti-Communist hearings (15 min.), Luckiest nut in the world by Emily James, a lesson about the nutty economics of free trade (8 min.) and Something other than other by Jerry A. Henry, in which Henry and his wife discuss discrimination and their dreams for their newborn multiracial son (9 min.)

Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer.

Salt of the earth depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining company to break a union strike of underprivileged Mexican American workers who endeavor to prevent their wives from participation on an equal basis in the strike

DVD, region 1, NTSC; full screen; stereo.