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1) Germinal
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"Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow-miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for...
3) Tout va b!en
Series
Criterion collection volume 275
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory, as witnessed by an American reporter and her has-been New Wave film director husband. Culminates in a free-range assault on consumer capitalism and ineffective leftists. A caustic critique of society, marriage, and revolution in post-1968 France.
5) At war
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite record profits, and heavy sacrifices made by their employees, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1,100 employees decide to battle against the brutal decision in an attempt to save their jobs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
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Pony whisperer volume 5
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Being able to talk to ponies isn't all that it's cracked up to be. It's show time! The riders for Laurel Farm Stables are chosen to perform at a popular charity event and everyone is thrilled-everyone except the ponies. The ponies are on strike! and Pia's horse, Drummer, is leading the rebellion. Their routine is so disasterous that Pia's other problems (like trying to hide her crush on James) seem totally unimportant. And now everyone expects Pia...
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In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own, stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike springs from his tragic idealism, from the "courage never to submit or yield."
10) The bobbin girl
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 23 cm.
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"The colliery village of Bellingsworth is already divided over an impending strike, so the last thing it needs is a murder, but that's exactly what it gets when a retired miner called Len Hopkins is found battered to death in his outside lavatory"--Dust jacket flap.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly...
13) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wrenching historical drama that recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. Written and directed by John Sayles, this film issues an impassioned cry for justice that still resounds today.
14) Viva's voice
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When her Papi's bus drivers union goes on strike, Viva uses her powerful voice to give him the confidence he needs to give a speech on the picket line.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose is a pampered and prissy makeup artist who is hoping to get out of a bad relationship with her boyfriend, Sergio, by leaving him in Paris and heading off to Mexico for a holiday. After losing her cell phone, Rose borrows one from Felix, a somewhat stiff salesman with an interest in gourmet cooking, who is en route to Munich to attend a funeral. When both Rose and Felix find themselves stranded at the airport due to a transportation strike, they...
16) Gods of gold
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Believing that an eight-year-old girl is missing, Detective Inspector Tom Harper sets out to find the child, but is drawn into the growing violence surrounding the gas workers strike.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
18) Strike
Publisher
MPI Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder... until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history... and becomes a national hero." -Container.
19) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatized version of the battles which took place in the coal fields of West Virginia in the 1920s when the union and the coal companies were at odds.
20) Newsies
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
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