Jim Klein

Jim Klein

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Jim Klein

Películas

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Editor
This documentary provides a window into the extraordinary life of activist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who has worked to regain ownership of her country and its fate after years of colonialism. While gentle and thoughtful, Maathai carries a powerful message: the First World holds much of the responsibility for the environmental, economic and social struggles of the developing world.
Persiguiendo sueños
Editor
Freddy es un joven a quien le cuesta afrontar la responsabilidad de haber dejado embarazada a su novia. Sale de su pueblo para encontrar a alguien que le pueda ayudar. En el camino, conoce a Albert, que se ha fugado de un centro de rehabilitación de menores y se convierte en compañero de autostop. Ambos inician la búsqueda de sus sueños. En el camino conocen a mucha gente que decide ayudarles.
Taken for a Ride
Narrator
How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
Taken for a Ride
Director
How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
Letter to the Next Generation
Director
Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim Klein, a 60's radical-turned-filmmaker (Union Maids, Seeing Red) visits the campus of Kent State to probe behind the stereotypes. Together with young patrons of the local tanning salon, activists-turned-professors, and an ROTC captain, Klein ponders the social forces that are changing campuses and the country in the 90's.
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Director
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Union Maids
Director
Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.
Methadone: An American Way of Dealing
Director
The clients of a Dayton, Ohio drug withdrawal clinic, many of whom are workers in the area factories, are the subject of this socially conscious documentary
Growing Up Female
Editor
Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's movement in the early 1970s.
Growing Up Female
Producer
Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's movement in the early 1970s.
Growing Up Female
Writer
Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's movement in the early 1970s.
Growing Up Female
Director
Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's movement in the early 1970s.