Finally Got the News (1970)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 57M
Director : Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner
Sinopsis
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. Beginning with a historical montage, from the early days of slavery through the subsequent growth and organization of the working class, FINALLY GOT THE NEWS focuses on the crucial role played by the black worker in the American economy. Also explored is the educational 'tracking' system for both white and black youth, the role of African American women in the labor force, and relations between white and black workers.
Llenando el escenario con más “newsies” y más baile que nunca. Establecido en la ciudad de Nueva York en el cambio de siglo y basado en una historia real, Newsies es el relato emocionante de Jack Kelly, un carismático vendedor de periódicos y líder de una banda desigual de teenies ‘newsies’ que sólo sueña con una vida mejor, lejos de las penurias de las calles. Pero cuando publican a los titanes, Joseph Pulitzer y William Randolph Hearst aumentan los precios de la distribución a expensas de los jornaleros, Jack encuentra una causa por la que luchar y acude a las noticias de toda la ciudad para atacar y tomar posición por lo que es correcto.
Las desaventuras de un emigrante siciliano en Bergamo, que plantea una marcha como protesta.
A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. From delivering food and driving ride shares to tagging images for AI, millions of people around the world are finding work task by task online. The gig economy is worth over 5 trillion USD globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people in this shadow workforce? It brings their stories into the light. Lured by the promise of flexible work hours, independence, and control over time and money, workers from around the world have found a very different reality. Work conditions are often dangerous, pay often changes without notice, and workers can effectively be fired through deactivation or a bad rating. Through an engaging global cast of characters, it reveals how the magic of technology we are being sold might not be magic at all.
Circumstances force the union leader of a factory to marry his own boss, a rich and arrogant lady who has ulterior motives.
Shimu tiene 23 años. Dejó su ciudad cuando era niña y ahora vive en Dhaka. Trabaja en la industria textil en condiciones muy duras y con un sueldo muy precario, de manera que decide unirse a sus compañeras de trabajo para reivindicar mejores condiciones laborales. A pesar de las amenazas de sus superiores para el cese de las presiones que ejercen ella y las demás mujeres, y la desaprobación de su marido, decide seguir en la lucha desafiando la adversidad segura de conseguir lo que persigue.
There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. JU Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member of the team and they all go drinking together to welcome him.
José Real ha estado encarcelado durante los últimos diez años en un país sudamericano. A los convictos que sufren tan largo encarcelamiento, les es concedido un día libre para así poder visitar a sus familias.
It was women who closed the gates and launched the Solidarity strike when, on a Saturday in August 1980, workers, satisfied with a raise, stopped their protest and wanted to leave the Gdansk shipyard. If it had not been for the initiative of several determined women, perhaps there would not have been any August 1980 in Polish history. Under martial law, with the men in prisons, the women took on their role. They were not interested neither in joining the union’s power structure, nor in particular posts. The most important thing was their work and its results. When communism in Poland came to an end on June 4, 1989, the vast majority of women in Solidarity disappeared from the political stage. They let themselves be forgotten when their colleagues were taking over the most important posts in power in a free Poland. This documentary by Marta Dzido and Piotr Śliwowski reminds us about these forgotten heroines, giving us a new perspective on the last 30 years of Polish history.
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. Beginning with a historical montage, from the early days of slavery through the subsequent growth and organization of the working class, FINALLY GOT THE NEWS focuses on the crucial role played by the black worker in the American economy. Also explored is the educational 'tracking' system for both white and black youth, the role of African American women in the labor force, and relations between white and black workers.
A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number of strikes in Belgrade during the late 2000s and these introduce us to several characters playing themselves. Employees dressed in American football helmets and pads square up with employers' heavies in their bullet-proof vests, resulting in explosive situations. A visit from the Russian tycoon's representative and vice president Joe Biden's arrival further complicates the proceedings.
Retrato biográfico y crónica sobre el movimiento obrero y la izquierda uruguaya, “Conversaciones con Turiansky” combina dos relatos. El primero retrata al hijo de inmigrantes, al ingeniero apasionado por el misterio de la electricidad, al hombre enamorado, al cinéfilo. El otro sitúa al protagonista en su tiempo: las luchas sindicales, el avance del autoritarismo, la cárcel y los desafíos del presente. En ambos están presentes la lucidez, el compromiso, la discreta ternura y aún el humor de Wladimir Turiansky.
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.
A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
Una explosión en una de las mayores plantas químicas de Europa, la Petroquímica de Tarragona, despierta la lucha laboral de un grupo de obreros que reclama lo que es justo para todos. En la búsqueda de la película y ante muchas posibilidades que se abrían, los directores se encuentran de golpe con una lucha frecuente pero muy desgastada y enquistada en la sociedad, la lucha obrera. Una lucha que con el declive de sus años de historia refleja el fracaso del sistema neoliberal evidenciado en los cuerpos de los obreros industriales.
The film investigates an industry considered one of the pillars of growth during Kirchnerism in which, during these years, relations and conflicts were drawn between the manufacturers - foreign in its entirety -, the auto parts companies, the Argentine government, the Brazilian one, the union leaderships. -centrally from SMATA-, the workers and the left. The documentary delves into the interests that intersect and the confrontations that originate between the different actors in the chain, which became clear in recent times when the industry, which aspired to reach one million cars manufactured per year, began to regress. The different actors of the "Journey to the Center of Production" are intertwined in the conflict of the auto parts company Gestamp, which opened a dispute regarding who pays for the crisis in the sector and what solutions are seen in that dispute.
Johnny Knoxville y el resto del reparto de la serie de televisión "Jackass" realizan las hazañas más escandalosas y divertidas en Japón, donde se disfrazan de pandas y atacan un campo de golf mas intensas que en la TV.
For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.
¡Han vuelto! En una película con todo el material que no pudieron incluir en la número dos. Te reirás hasta llorar y desencajar tu mandíbula a medida que Johny Knoxville y los chicos te introducen entre bambalinas con Jackass 2.5, hablando de estas increíbles e inéditas acrobacias, bromas y otros actos aleatorios de malicia y estupidez en unas hilarantes entrevistas nuevas. 90 minutos de metraje extra y de contenidos especiales. Jackass 2.5 es tan insólito, sucio y directamente sexy como sus predecesores, pero a unos niveles que no podrían verse en los cines.
