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8 results for “labor organizer”

The Organizer

1963 ★ 7.5

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin,

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Norma Rae

1979 ★ 7.2

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be

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Matewan

1987 ★ 7.4

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab

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Silkwood

1983 ★ 6.9

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of

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Which Way Is Up?

1977 ★ 6.1

Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie

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Boxcar Bertha

1972 ★ 5.8

"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bi

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A Whole Life Ahead

2008 ★ 6.6

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother S

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Herta Ware

Herta Ware was an actress born on June 9, 1917, in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. She had forty-one known credits in acting across movies and television s

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