5 factories worker control in Venezuela 2006
Dario Azzellini, Oliver Ressler, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Documents the experiences of workers' participation and control in 5 different factories, the aluminium smelter at Alcasa, the tomato processing plant in Caigua, a chocolate factory, a textile cooperative in Tachira and the paper mill in Carabobo, Invepal. 1 videodisc (81 min.)
MEDIA 10-1100
Ankur The seedling / [presented by] Blaze Film Enterprises ; produced by Mohan J. Bijlani, Freni M. Variava ; story, scenario, direction, Shyam Benegal 2000
Mohan J Bijlani, Freni M Variava, Shyam Benegal, Vanraj Bhatia, and Shabana Azmi
Values clash as loyalties are tried and tested in a rural Indian setting. Class conflict of the idle-rich landowning class against toiling peasants is dramatized in a brief extra-marital liaison between an attractive village laborer and her young employer. 1 videodisc (125 min.)
MEDIA 10-181
La ciudad The city 1999
David Riker and Paul Mezey
"With ... intensive collaboration with the New York Latino immigrant community over a five-year period, The City [La Ciudad] weaves a rich narrative tapestry of present day immigrant life. The film's four unforgettable stories center on a group of day-laborers scavenging for bricks; two teenagers from the same hometown who meet in the projects and fall in love; a homeless father who tries to enroll his daughter in school; and a garment worker who seeks justice in the sweatshops"--Publisher's Web site. 1 videocassette (88 min.)
MEDIA 2-5372, 10-543
Class dismissed how TV frames the working class c2005
Pepi Leistyna, Loretta Alper, Edward Asner , and Media Education Foundation
From television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas and daytime talk shows, this video explores the way race, gender and sexuality play a part in the negative cultural attitudes and public policies that affect the lives of working class people. 1 videocassette (ca. 62 min.)
MEDIA 10-3233 2-7193
For richer, for poorer 2007?
Bruno Sorrentino, Luciana Burlamaqui, Lucy Briers, Television Trust for the Environment, and Bullfrog Films
Examines the gulf between Brazil's rich and poor by traveling to favela Coliseu in Săo Paulo and assessing what progress has been made in eradicating poverty in the two and a half years under President Lula da Silva. 1 videodisc (25 min.)
MEDIA. 10-1222
Halmae kkot Grandmother's flower 2008
Jeong-hyun Mun, PURN Production (Firm), Y?onghwa Chinh?ung Wiw?onhoe (Korea), and Newsreel (Firm)
"When director Mun accidentally discovered the diaries of his late granduncle, who was mentally ill, he unexpectedly learned about his family's secret history. The small mountain village in South Jeolla Province where Mun's family lived, was nursing the wounds from conflicts of class, ideology as well as from the displacement of family members in South and North Korea, and even in Japan. It turned out that the history of his family contained all the tragedies of modern Korean history, a history he had only known through textbooks. This interesting documentary investigates a complex history linking the repercussions of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War to the director's family memories."--publisher web site. 1 videodisc (89 min.)
MEDIA 10-1648
Heaven will protect the working girl 1993
Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, and Andrea Ades Vasquez
Period still and motion pictures and words derived from interviews, memoirs, newspapers and other sources are assembled to show the life of immigrant shirtwaist makers in New York City during the first decade of the 20th century. Illustrates the strike movement and their arrests. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
MEDIA 10-3207 2-2087
Il gattopardo The leopard c2004
Luchino Visconti, Goffredo Lombardo, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Michael Wood, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Titanus (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm), Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. 3 videodiscs (185 min.)
MEDIA 10-527
The Indian miracle? 2008
Ashok Prasad, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Juniper Communications, Channel Four (Great Britain), and Filmakers Library, inc
As the gap between the rich and the poor in India turns to a chasm, a renowned news journalist questions the social stability of a country that will soon enter the top five of the world's economic giants. 1 videodisc (49 min.)
MEDIA 10-1740
Jungle fever 1998
Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L Jackson, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, and Anthony Quinn
A black architect begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors. 1 videodisc (89 min.)
MEDIA DANA 10-47 1403
Light fly, fly high 2013
"Thulasi, a young Indian woman in her twenties, is literally willing to box her way out of poverty and into a better life. A Dalit or "untouchable" born outside of caste, she rejected her place on society's lowest rung at an early age. Ten years later, despite her impressive record in the ring, Thulasi remains stuck at the bottom, deprived of opportunities she rightly deserves."--Container. 1 videodisc (80 min.)
MEDIA. RU-ONLINE 10-5654 10-5654
Metropolis 1984
Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Karl Freund, and Giorgio Moroder
The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors. 1 videocassette (87 min.)
MEDIA DANA MEDIA 2-34 614 10-165 10-2444
People like us social class in America c2001
Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Rudy Cheeks, Lora Myers, Center for New American Media, CNAM Film Library, WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), Independent Television Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
How do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Discusses how social class plays a role in the lives of all Americans, whether they live in Park Avenue penthouses, Appalachian trailer parks, bayou houseboats or suburban gated communities. Travels across the U.S. to present stories of family traditions, class mobility, and different lifestyle choices. 1 videodisc (124 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2317 2-5850
Q2P 2006
Paromita Vohra, PUKAR (Bombay, India), and V Tape (Firm)
Examines issues of gender, class, and caste, space, urban development, and the myth of the global metropolis through access to public toilets in Bombay with a small detour in Delhi as well. 1 videodisc (54 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2598
Rue Cases-Nčgres Sugar Cane Alley c2004
Euzhan Palcy, Darling Legitimus, Garry Cadenat, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé, Joseph Zobel, SU.MA.FA. Productions, Orca Productions, Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm), and New Yorker Video (Firm)
The teenage life and adventures of young José, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. José lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former slave, drinks too much one time, and even sets fire to one of the run-down shanties. Regardless of his pranks, José never neglects his education. 1 videodisc (107 min.)
MEDIA 10-803
A school of their own c2006
Debra Kaufman, Jay Hopkins, Rabble Rouser Productions, and Choices, Inc
"In remote Nepal, The Riverside School is a unique educational environment that educates low-caste and tribal children, half of whom are girls. There, children flourish in an environment free of the caste system, gender prejudice, and violence found in government schools - and in their society at large. Follow the school's struggle to stay afloat during the bloody ten-year civil war in which children are caught in the middle. The police accuse them of being Maoist rebels while the rebels themselves forcibly draft children over twelve years old into their army" -- Container. 1 videodisc (58 min.)
MEDIA 10-1764
The women of summer the Bryn Mawr school for women workers, 1921-1938 1985
Suzanne Bauman
Weaves together oral histories, unearthed diaries and letters to reconstruct an educational experiment of the 1920s and 30s in which women from the mills and factories went to Bryn Mawr College for a special summer session. DVD 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1929
Working girls 1987
Lizzie Borden, Andi Gladstone, Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin, Marusia Zach, Janne Peters, and Helen Nicholas
With humour and candor, producer Lizzie Borden recreates a typical day in the life of a middle class brothel in New York City, and lets the viewer share the experience of women paid to guarantee satisfaction as told from a woman's perspective. The film treats prostitutes less as stereotypes and more as people--people with feelings, concerns, goals and dreams--just like anybody else. 1 videocassette (93 min.)
MEDIA MEDIA 2-1868 10-1495
Workingman's death 2007
Michael Glawogger, Erich Lackner, Mirjam Quinte, Pepe Danquart, John Zorn, Lotus Film (Firm), Quinte Film, and Cinema Guild
Glawdogger deconstructs contemporary conceptions of work by showcasing six of the most grueling and dangerous professions he could find. At once a rejoinder to those predicting the death of manual labour and a ground-level lesson on globalization, the film makes the efforts of these impoverished men something heroic. They represent a forgotten kind of courage. All of this work is captured in Glawogger's characteristic stunning compositions, with an eye for the harsh grandeur of elemental and industrial environments. Features Ukrainian miners working in abondoned coal mines, Indonesian sulphur gatherers, Nigerian slaughterhouse workers, Pakistani shipbreakers, Chinese steelworkers and German smelters. 1 videodisc (122 min.)
MEDIA 10-2131
American dream 1992
Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn
The true-life story of a workers strike in Austin, Minn. When the Hormel Company made 2 million in profits and then cut workers salary by $2 an hour and benefits by 30%, the workers saw only one option: strike. 1 videocassette (98 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 958 2-3285
Chircales 200-?
Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva, FundacioŢn Cine Documental, and Latin American Video Archives
Considers the lives and work of poor brickmakers living in remote areas of Colombia. Shows how they are bound to their employers by serf-like bonds and by impoverished lives. 1 videocassette (42 min.)
MEDIA 2-7243
City of promise 1995
Lynne Thigpen and Werner Bundschuh
The context for the war on poverty shifts after 1965. Urban rebellions provoke a sense of urgency for some, while others now see the war against poverty as hopeless. Increasingly, the media and the public equate poverty with inner-city black communities. This program looks at the anger and despair of the poor and the powerless, and the anger and frustration of the middle class at having to pay for "others' mistakes." It also examines attempts made in Newark, New Jersey, to reclaim the inner city through public/private partnerships. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4088
Disguised as paupers 2001
Hans Bülow and Poul-Erik Heilbuth
A class of rich industrialists has emerged in Third World countries who disregard environmental treaties and secure international aid by claiming they are "poor" and need special dispensations. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-6026
The double day 1975
Jane Stubbs, Helena Solberg, and Elvira Crespo Arnal
Interviews with Mexican factory workers, Argentine maids, Bolivian miners' wives, and Venezuelan women in a consciousness-raising session, examine the effects of the social and economic systems on the lives of these women - their status on the job, their family relationships and values, and the socialization process to which they are subjected. 1 videocassette (53 min.)
MEDIA 2-1643
For richer, for poorer 2007?
Bruno Sorrentino, Luciana Burlamaqui, Lucy Briers, Television Trust for the Environment, and Bullfrog Films
Examines the gulf between Brazil's rich and poor by traveling to favela Coliseu in Săo Paulo and assessing what progress has been made in eradicating poverty in the two and a half years under President Lula da Silva. 1 videodisc (25 min.)
MEDIA. 10-1222
Forty two up 1999
Michael Apted
Follows a group of Britons starting in 1964 from different economic and social backgrounds, interviewing them at the age of seven, then again at fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight, and now at forty-two to examine how close they are to achieving the dreams and ambitions of their childhood and youth. 1 videocassette (134 min.)
DANA 1595
France, 1904-1912 the enemy below 1989
Noël Burch
Examines the appeal of early French cinema to the working class audience and the populist themes that dominated the earliest films. Shows how bourgeois values found their way into popular cinema only with the devistataions of the First World War. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-675
From Harlem to Harvard a film 1982
An award-winning film made by four Harvard upperclassmen in the 1979-1980 school year. Traces the experiences of a motivated, black, middle class freshman from Harlem as he tries to succeed i- an alien environment at Harvard University. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
DANA 968
Germany 1926-1932 under two flags 1989
Noël Burch
Examines "populist" cinema in Germany of the 20s showing the influence of Soviet cinema in the German social workers' movements. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-677
Great Britain, 1900-1912 along the great divide 1989
Noël Burch
Uses extremely rare and obscure films to explore the origins of cinema in Great Britain. Examines the development of filmmaking techniques and how the early films reflected the social concerns and class divisions in British society of the period. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-672
Halmae kkot Grandmother's flower 2008
Jeong-hyun Mun, PURN Production (Firm), Y?onghwa Chinh?ung Wiw?onhoe (Korea), and Newsreel (Firm)
"When director Mun accidentally discovered the diaries of his late granduncle, who was mentally ill, he unexpectedly learned about his family's secret history. The small mountain village in South Jeolla Province where Mun's family lived, was nursing the wounds from conflicts of class, ideology as well as from the displacement of family members in South and North Korea, and even in Japan. It turned out that the history of his family contained all the tragedies of modern Korean history, a history he had only known through textbooks. This interesting documentary investigates a complex history linking the repercussions of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War to the director's family memories."--publisher web site. 1 videodisc (89 min.)
MEDIA 10-1648
Hamsin Hot wind 1988
D Wachsman, J Lifshin, Shlomo Tarshish, Yassin Shawaf, Hemda Levy, and Ruth Geller
The problem of Arab-Jewish relations is portrayed in this study of a Jewish landowner and his Arab worker. Set in the Galilee, northern Israel, in 1982. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
MEDIA 2-5695
Harlan County U.S.A 1989
Barbara Kopple
Focusing on the efforts of 180 coal-mining families to win a United Mine Workers contract at the Brookside Mine in Harlan Co., Ky., the film documents the 3-year strike showing the early confrontations on the picket line, the increasing incidence of violence including the murder of a young striker, and, finally, the signing of the contract. Utilizes both historical footage and footage filmed on location to compare and contrast working conditions and organizing efforts of the 1930's with the 1970's. 1 videocassette (103 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-107 95
Heaven will protect the working girl 1993
Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, and Andrea Ades Vasquez
Period still and motion pictures and words derived from interviews, memoirs, newspapers and other sources are assembled to show the life of immigrant shirtwaist makers in New York City during the first decade of the 20th century. Illustrates the strike movement and their arrests. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
MEDIA 2-2087
The Helping hand 1984
Janet Roach, Bill D Moyers, and Bernard A Weisberger
Looks at how the New Deal helped to create jobs during the Depression. Interviews former Civilian Conservation Corps workers who benefited from these programs. 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-87
In the land of plenty 1999
Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio
Provides a human portrait of workers at the mercy of a greedy system as it follows Mexican migrant agricultural laborers in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California. 1 videocassette (62 min.)
MEDIA 2-6038
The Indian miracle? 2008
Ashok Prasad, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Juniper Communications, Channel Four (Great Britain), and Filmakers Library, inc
As the gap between the rich and the poor in India turns to a chasm, a renowned news journalist questions the social stability of a country that will soon enter the top five of the world's economic giants. 1 videodisc (49 min.)
MEDIA 10-1740
The Inheritance 1965
Harold M Mayer, Millard Lampell, and Robert Ryan
Presents a view of America as seen through the eyes of its working people. Uses still photographs, as well as silent film and newsreel footage, accompanied by folk songs and popular music, to show conditions since 1900 as found in the sweatshops, coal mines, and weaving mills, and as evidence in the labor struggles of the thirties and the civil rights movement of the sixties. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
MEDIA 2-1865
It was a wonderful life hidden homeless women 1992
Michele Ohayon, Tamar E Glaser, and Jodie Foster
This film follows the stories of six different hidden homeless women as they struggle to survive, one day at a time, and find a place for themselves in a society ill-equipped to deal with the "used to haves". They challenge our notion of who can feel secure in our society. 1 videocassette (ca. 84 min.)
MEDIA 2-5110
The Jewel in the crown 1993, 1984
Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Dance, Tim Piggott-Smith, Susan Wooldridge, Art Malik, Geraldine James, Paul Scott, Ken Taylor, Christopher Morahan, and Jim O'Brien
Tells the epic story of men and women caught up in a struggle of race and class during the last five years of British rule in India. 8 videocassettes (each ca. 100 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3530 cassette 1 2-3531 cassette 2 2-3532 cassette 3 2-3533 cassette 4 2-3534 cassette 5 2-3535 cassette 6 2-3536 cassette 7 2-3537 cassette 8
A Job at Ford's 1993
Jon Else, Joe Morton, and Steve Fayer
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2222 2-4176
The Joy that kills 1988
Tina Rathborne, Sue Jett, Tony Mark, Frances Conroy, Elizabeth Franz, Jeffrey De Munn, Lee Richardson, Rosalind Cash, and Kate Chopin
The story of a woman in the upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-476
Kastevold i Indien c2007
Jens Pedersen, Anita Pariyar, Danmarks radio, Sveriges utbildningsradio, DANIDA, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
"Every year, thousands die in India through caste-related violence, as untouchables and upper-castes alike stoop as low as they need to go to gain their aims. Seen through the lens of a veteran photojournalist, this program looks at both sides of the struggle between the upper-caste Ranvir militia and Dalit supporters of the Marxist-Leninists in Bihar"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 28 min.)
DANA 468
Last Pullman car 1996
The story of the closing of the last factory in America to manufacture subway and railroad cars. Shows the confrontation between Pullman workers fighting to save their jobs and the modern Pullman conglomerate. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
DANA 925
Martha & Ethel 1995
Jyll Johnstone, Martha Kneifel, and Ethel Edwards
Through riveting interviews, vintage photographs, home movies and newsreel footage, Martha & Ethel chronicles the lives of two nannies and the upper-class families they served from the 1940's to the present. 1 videocassette (80 min.)
MEDIA 2-5452
Mean things happening 1993
Dante J James, Joe Morton, and Steve Fayer
In the American democracy of the 1930's two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union. On the tenant farms and in the steel favtories working peoplw asserted their citizenship in the midst of great economic turmoil and a tide of government reform. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2226 2-4180
Mill times 2002
David Macauley, Larry Klein, Mark Olshaker, and David Macaulay
Live action segments follow the Industrial Revolution from Manchester, England to Lowell, Massachusetts. The animated story centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first textile mill was established in America. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4016a
Mr. Sears' catalogue 1989
Edward Gray and Ken Lewis
Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 1535 2-861 2-4018
Norma Rae 1996, 1979
Martin Ritt, Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle, and Barbara Baxley
A poor Southern textile worker with a disreputable past, who courageously supports the Northern union organizer in a final successful attempt to unionize the last major non-union textile factory in the South. 1 videocassette (117 min.)
MEDIA 2-3637
On the edge America's working poor 2004
Ted Koppel, ABC News Productions, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Presents an examination of the working poor in the United States. Several families describe their lives as members of the working poor community where one unexpected expense, sudden illness, or a missed payment could mean financial ruin. 1 videorecording (22 min.)
DANA 237
Organizing America a history of trade unions in the U.S 1994
Kyle Boyd, Susan Pointon, Michael Martin, Joseph W Powell, Joe William Trotter, Rex Hardesty, Ken Sullivan, Maurine Weiner Greenwald, and J. Davitt McAteer
Broadly tracing American labor history, this program incorporates interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage to provide a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues including health and safety conditions, the minimum wage, discrimination, job security and strikes. It presents the struggle of American labor against the backdrop of major events that shaped American society as a whole: world wars, the industrial revolution, immigration, unemployment, class conflict, child labor, women in the workplace, civil rights and the emergence of high technology. 1 videocassette (40 min.)
MEDIA 2-3804
People like us social class in America 2001
Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, and Rudy Cheeks
A documentary examining how social class plays a role in the lives of all Americans. Traveling across the country presenting stories of family traditions, class mobility and different lifestyle choices, it makes connections between daily life and the larger issues of class in America. 1 videocassette (124 min.)
MEDIA 2-5850
A question of fairness c2004
Mark Ganguzza, Bill D Moyers, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Public Affairs Television (Firm), and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Bill Moyers investigates the growing gap between rich and poor by focusing on three cases: the impact of NAFTA on a Pennsylvania mill town; the collapse of WorldCom due to the financial deragulation in the 1990s; and the attempt to reform Alabama's state income tax system. 1 videorecording (58 min.)
MEDIA HC110.I5
Q47 2004
339.2 2-7470
Real stories from a free South Africa: Vol. 5: Nabantwa bam' With my children 2004
Khulile Nxumalo, Tusi Fokane, SABC 1 (Television station : Johannesburg, South Africa), and California Newsreel (Firm)
A case study of the emergence of social classes even within the same South African family. 1 videocassette (41 min.)
MEDIA 2-7262
Roosevelt, New Jersey 1983
Richard Kroehling and Laura Nathanson
Explores the history of a unique community, created in 1936 under the name Jersey Homesteads with funds from the U.S. Resettlement Administration. In this radical social and economic experiment, 120 families of Jewish garment workers moved from New York City to settle in the cooperative, which included a coat factory, and a consumer outlet. Includes archival footage and interviews with the original cooperators and their children. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA D-357
The Rouge 199-?
John Owens and Emery King
When built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. This documentary gives a first-hand account of how workers spent their lives in the factory. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
MEDIA 2-5738
Rude boy 199-?
Michael White, Jack Hazan, David Mingay, Ray Gange, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Nicky Headon
In this mixture of concert film and social documentary about the class system as it exists in the British Commonwealth, the rock group The Clash performs many of their hit songs while lashing out against this oppression. The mood is one of disillusion and political failure in England, as an increasing number of unemployed and aimless youths see little or no chance of excitement or purpose. The film features numerous live concert performances of The Clash as well as offstage and informal performance footage. 1 videocassette (127 min.)
MUSIC 430
Salt of the earth 1987
H. J Biberman
Semi-documentary covering the events of a bitter, year-long strike of Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico. Shot on location in 1953 by a group of blacklisted filmmakers and a largely nonprofessional cast. 1 videocassette (94 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-479 2-3284
A school of their own c2006
Debra Kaufman, Jay Hopkins, Rabble Rouser Productions, and Choices, Inc
"In remote Nepal, The Riverside School is a unique educational environment that educates low-caste and tribal children, half of whom are girls. There, children flourish in an environment free of the caste system, gender prejudice, and violence found in government schools - and in their society at large. Follow the school's struggle to stay afloat during the bloody ten-year civil war in which children are caught in the middle. The police accuse them of being Maoist rebels while the rebels themselves forcibly draft children over twelve years old into their army" -- Container. 1 videodisc (58 min.)
MEDIA 10-1764
Social class issues in the U.S.A 1993
Tony Labriola and J. Q Adams
Discusses family income by ethnic group and the increase in poverty and homelessness in the U.S. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA 220
The two nations of black America 1998
June Cross, Henry Louis Gates, and Avery Brooks
Measures the economic and social success of the civil rights movement and the gap between middle class and poor African-Americans. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 1792 2-3396
The two nations of black America 1998
June Cross, Henry Louis Gates, and Avery Brooks
Measures the economic and social success of the civil rights movement and the gap between middle class and poor African-Americans. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 1792 2-3396
Unequal education 1994
Bill D Moyers, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Carolie Jenkins, Robert Morris, and Joseph Camp
The initial segment "Failing our children" focuses on inequality in the education available in rich and poor New York neighborhood schools. A group of four recently graduated high school students produced and reported this segment. Also includes Kathleen Hall Jamieson commenting on the 1992 Presidential campaign and a discussion between Jonathan Kozol and John Chubb on school vouchers. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-3295
Union maids [videorecording}by Julia Reichert, James Klein, and Miles Mogulescu 1976
Julia Reichert, James Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Sylvia Woods, Katherine Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Pete Seeger, and Alice Lynd
The life stories of 3 Chicago area women, now in their 60's, who rose from the rank and file to become union organizers in the 30's. The stories are interspersed with archival footage, still photographs, and union songs of the 30's. 1 reel, 50 min.
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1640 6-52
United States, 1902-1914 tomorrow the world 1989
Noël Burch
Examines early filmmaking in the United States. Shows how America's immigrant masses were the earliest audience for films but also the ridiculed and stereotyped subjects of these films. Illustrates how American filmmakers discovered narrative but avoided social content and criticism as the middle class came to dominate the film audience. Includes excerpts from numerous erly films. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-673
The uprising of '34 1995
George C Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Susanne Rostock
A revolution of hope -- The consequencesA documentary on the working conditions of cotton mill workers in the South and events surrounding the General Textile Strike of 1934, the effects of which are still felt sixty years later. 1 videocassette (87 min.)
MEDIA 2-3391
Ways of seeing: Painting and possessions 198-?, 1974
John Berger and Michael Dibb
The third in a series of four programs. Presents Berger's view of European oil painting as an expression of the wealth and position of the patrons whose likenesses and property it depicts. The importance of ownership of a painting appeals to the same human drives as does advertizing, and this increases the number and kind of parallels between the two. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
MEDIA 2-2553
We are not your monkeys 1998?
Anand Patwardhan
We are not your monkeys: Short film of song offering the dalit (lower caste) perspective on the Ramayana version of Indic history and the caste system. Occupation, millworker: Textile mills, once the foundation of Bombay's economy, now find it difficult to survive in a changing economic climate. This documentary examines the struggle by millworkers to reopen a mill in 1992 after a four-year lockout by management. 1 videocassette
MEDIA 2-3696
The Western tradition 1989
Eugen Joseph Weber
Program 19: The Middle Ages (27:00) -- Program 20: The Feudal order (27:32)Program 19 discusses the growth of a new social order as Europe tries to restructure with the merging of the Roman and German societies. Society begins to divide into peasant, clergy and noble classes. Program 20 examines how society stabilizes into the feudal order of nobles to protect property and people, cleric to protect their souls, and the peasants to provide food for everyone. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
DANA 580
Who built America? 1987
Pt. 1. The big H -- pt. 2. Tea party etiquette -- pt. 3. Daughters of freemen -- pt. 4. Doing as they can -- pt. 5. Five points -- pt. 6. Doctor Toer's amazing magic lantern show -- pt. 7. 1877: the grand army of starvationExplores the social history of working Americans. Concentrates on events and issues of the 19th century. 7 videocassettes (175 min.)
DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 123 cassette 1 123 cassette 2 123 cassette 3 123 cassette 4 123 cassette 5 123 cassette 6 123 cassette 7 2-975 cassette 1 2-976 cassette 2 2-977 cassette 3 2-978 cassette 4 2-979 cassette 5 2-980 cassette 6 2-981 cassette 7
The women of summer the Bryn Mawr school for women workers, 1921-1938 1985
Suzanne Bauman
Weaves together oral histories, unearthed diaries and letters to reconstruct an educational experiment of the 1920s and 30s in which women from the mills and factories went to Bryn Mawr College for a special summer session. DVD 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1929
Working 1991
David Kennard, Patrick Lui, Anthony Quayle , and Mike Chinoy
The industrial workers, China's elite class under Communism, were guaranteed complete security for life--until the 1980s when the "iron rice bowl" system was replaced by the "responsibility system." Now the most productive workers reap the larger rewards. 1 videocassette (29 min.)
MEDIA 2-2328