Justice in the Coalfields
Jan 01, 1995 | IMDB 0
57 min Watch NowDocumentary
This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that followed the expiration of their contract and Pittston's termination of the medical benefits of 1,500 pensioners, widows, and disabled miners.
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IMDB 2 | Jun , 2023
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IMDB 8 | Feb , 2024
Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.The Occupation of Cockatoo Island 1989
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2025
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 1929
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1953
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1949
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 0 | May , 2011
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IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1977
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IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 1990
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2016
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IMDB 0 | May , 1931
On May 1st, unions all over Japan celebrate May Day, the international day for workers. Workers gather together at parks and hold demonstrations and parades. May Day has its origins in a strike that occurred in the United States on May 1, 1886, a strike that called for an eight-hour workday. Prokino recorded the May Day every year from 1927 to 1932. Among these films, this work is the only one that has survived. However, only its first part has survived. The original film depicts the march to the Ueno Park where the rally was dismissed. Iwasaki Akira coordinated the entire Tokyo Prokino organization as it photographed the 1931 May Day celebrations. They shot in both 16mm and 35mm (other 35mm productions were planned, but this is the only one that achieved completion). A 16mm print was circulated around the countryside by mobile projection units, and a 35mm print was shown at Soviet film nights in Tokyo and Osaka.