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Reflect of the workers' movement in cinema - two examples |
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Matewan |
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This film by director John Sayles, released in 1987, is inspired by events that happened in 1920 in the town of Mingo County (West Virginia) in the USA. It's about a conflict opposing the miners of the Stone Mountain Coal Company to their employer. |
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Some historical information:United Mine Workers of America: Matewan West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources: May 19, 1920: Matewan Massacre West Virginia Division of Culture and History: The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921 |
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The Salt of the Earth |
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This film by Herbert Biberman, produced in 1954 with the participation of the International Union Of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, is based on a strike of the miners of the Empire Zinc Mine de Silver City, New Mexico. |
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Some historical information: |
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