Directed by Barbara Koppel This documentary recounts a 1974 strike of Kentucky coal mine workers.; a searing expose of the personal struggles of families mired in shocking poverty and hazardous working conditions and exploited by mining companies. Oscar: Best Documentary Oscar. Selected for the National…
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Directed by Elia Kazan Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, PeggyAnn Garner. The bright, imaginative daughter of Irish immigrants comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement in the 1900s. Kazan’s directorial debut., and a realistic, heartfelt and nostalgic version of the best selling…
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Directed by Lee Hirsch One of the first documentaries on the South African struggle against apartheid. Interviews, archival footage, and mesmerizing performances highlight the unsung role of music in the battle for rights. “Remarkable and persuasive argument on behalf of music as a political weapon”…
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Directed by John Ford With Henry Fonda and John Carradine Ford’s most famous epic drama depicting the plight of migrant farmers driven from their land by the dust bowl of the 1930s. Classic adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. “A triumph on both political…
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Film Screening & Fundraiser Winner of 23 International Awards, The Corporation is an acclaimed documentary film which explores the nature and spectacular rise of the most pervasive institution of our time. Few words have the baggage that the word corporate does. The majority of workers…