World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to join the military or to seek work in the cities. The solution would be a unique contract-worker agreement between the United States and Mexico -- The Bracero Program.
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A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the...
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It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.
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Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....
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This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973....
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A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...
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In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?
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This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...
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Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a...
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...
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Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
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The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...
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Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and...