SUGGESTED FILMS & VIDEOS
Labor

Films are listed on the page chronologically. Alphabetical listing:

Title: Eugene Debs and the American Movement: a documentary film of worker struggle. 1977, USA. 43 mins. Color.

PBS Status: PBS national service has never carried.

Description: This film documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched photographs, drawings and newsreel footage, it tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. This film is movingly narrated in Deb's own words, read from his speeches and writings, by his friend and comrade, Shubert Sebree. From after the Civil War until his death in 1926, Debs was part of U.S. history at a time when the foundations of modern industrial and corporate nation were established. In this fifty year period, Debs was influenced by events as diverse as the massive railroad strike of 1877, the rapid growth of monopolies in the 1890s, World War I, and the Russian Revolution. Debs and the movement he helped build are more than just nostalgia, they are roots of a long and bloody struggle of American working people to own collectively what they produce.

Credits: Coming soon.

Awards & Screenings: In the National Collection, British Film Institute

Broadcast Rights Owner: Cambridge Documentary Films. Telephone: 617-484-3993, Fax: 617-484-0745.. cdf@shore.net

Broadcast License Fee: Coming soon.

Video: Available. Rental: $70     Purchase: $99.95    16mm purchase: $560

Previews: Not available. If you rent and decide to buy, your one day rental charge (not including shipping charge) can be deducted from the purchase price.

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Title: Struggles In Steel: A Story Of African-American Steelworkers. 1996, USA. 60 mins. Color.

PBS Status: Coming soon.

Description: A moving and insightful examination of the 100-year struggle of African-American steelworkers for equal rights in the mills. Combining archival footage and frank interviews with dozens of workers, the documentary paints an uncompromising picture of how one culture was hit especially hard by the industry's collapse.

Credits: Directors/Producers: Anthony Buba & Raymond Henderson

Awards & Screenings: 1999 duPont Award, Anthony Buba 1998 Artist of the Year—Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1996 Special Merit Historical Documentary—Prized Pieces Film & Video Competition of the National Black Programming Consortium, and 1996 Juror's Citation—Black Maria Film & Video Festival.

Broadcast Rights Owner: Coming soon.

Broadcast License Fee: Coming soon.

Video: California Newsreel. Voicemail: 415-621-6196, Fax: 415-621-6522. Purchase: $195, discounts for high school, public libraries & community groups. See the California Newsreel website for ordering details.

Previews: Available from California Newsreel, see preview policy.

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