Labor History & Related Films Available at Best Video
from the GNH Labor History Association Newsletter, Sep-Oct 2016
Best Video Film and Cultural Center and the GNH Labor History Association have worked together to make labor history films available to educators and the general public in a convenient way. The films, located next to the political documentaries shelf, are available for a small fee at the store at 1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden.
The two small non-profit organizations hope to expand the collection through grants and donations.
Let us know if you can help!
The films include:
- The Organizer (Italian film with Marcello Mastroianni as an itinerant labor organizer)
- The Take (Naomi Klein documentary on workers taking over Argentinian factories)
- The Wobblies (documentary on the International Workers of the World (IWW))
- Norma Rae (Sally Field as a woman who gets involved in organizing in a textile factory)
- Matewan (John Sayles movie about a 1920s coal strike)
- Bread and Roses (Drama starring Adrian Brody about Justice for Janitors campaign in LA)
- The Molly Maguires (Sean Connery in a drama about Irish-American secret society fighting for justice in the coal mines circa late 19th century)
- Newsies (musical about striking newsboys)
- American Dream (documentary about the Hormel strike)
- Harlan County USA (Oscar-winning drama about violent 1973 coal miners strike in Kentucky)
- F.I.S.T. (1978 drama starring Sylvester Stallone loosely based on Jimmy Hoffa’s career)
- Hoffa (Jack Nicholson stars as Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa)
- The Devil and Miss Jones (1941 screwball comedy about a tycoon who goes underground to foil a union organizing campaign in his store)
Hank Hoffman from Best Video was instrumental in supporting this collaborative project.
