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Language
English
Description
Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019?]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. Traces the racial and class conflicts in the slaughterhouses and management's efforts to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy full of dirty cops, shady businessmen, and scheming politicians. With nothing but his wits, he must figure out what is happening in Margrave, Georgia. The first season of REACHER is based on the international bestseller ₃Killing Floor₄ by Lee Child.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Tom Arnold was 21, he worked on the kill floor of an Iowa meat packing plant & sure Tom had crazy dreams of moving to Hollywood & becoming a standup comic like his idol Robin Williams & hanging out with his new best friend Arnold Schwarzenegger but Tom was resigned to slaughtering hogs for 50 years like his grandpa. This special is about what happened and what life's like now for a 58-year-old former meat packer & father of two whose first two...
5) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? Jake Epping is an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill, a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Stephen Crane is a con artist, swindler, and purported savior of a struggling sports car company. Sacked from an investment bank after one dodgy deal too many, Stephen lands a job at Douglas Motors, a business distinguished by old-fashioned craftsmanship and plagued by decades of familial mismanagement. There he finds himself playing surrogate son to the family patriarch, confidant to the adulterous son-in-law, and lover to the beautiful but willful...
Publisher
Reprise Records
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In June 2004, some of the greatest living guitar players and their bands gathered at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas for a three day festival. Features: Eric Clapton, BB King, James Taylor, Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Santana, ZZ TOP and many, many more.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Jimi Hendrix's performance at California's Monterey International Pop Festival, in June 1967, is one of his earliest American performances. Otis Redding's performance is one of his last. Both of these performances were taped live.
13) Free fall
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A top executive is killed in an apparent suicide leap from the skyscraper headquarters of Gault Capital. But when the dead man's loyal protege, Jane Porter, uncovers some startling criminal evidence, the corporation calls in their 'crisis manager' to silence her forever. He will trap Jane in an elevator between floors. It is a holiday weekend in the empty building. And for one desperate woman, surviving a cold-blooded killer may now mean a very long...
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Language
Italiano
Description
Leonora and Don Alvaro are preparing to elope when her father enters the room to stop them. He has opposed their marriage because of Don Alvaro's mixed ancestory. In a token of surrender, Alvaro throws his pistol to the floor which discharges. Fatally wounded, the Marquis curses Leonora and the force of destiny is thus set in motion. Leonora escapes and goes to a monastery to repent and spend her last days. Her brother, Don Carlo, has vowed to hunt...
Publisher
PlantPure Productions LCC
Pub. Date
℗2015
Language
English
Description
The documentary film PlantPure Nation tells the story of three people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time. After renowned nutritional scientist and bestselling author Dr. T. Colin Campbell gives a stirring speech on the floor of the Kentucky House of Representatives, his son Nelson, and Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner work together to propose a pilot program documenting the health...