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Uniform Title American dream (Motion picture : 1990)
Title American dream / Miramax Films ; Prestige ; directed by Barbara Kopple ; produced by Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn
Published New York, NY : Cabin Creek Films, 1990
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 102 min.)) : sound, color
Summary An account of the strike of the employees at the Hormel meat-packing plant in Austin, Minnesota, in 1984
American dream: After President Ronald Regan broke the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981, American corporations declared open season on organized labor. This Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991 presents the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike. This film is documents the workers efforts to retain these middle-class, blue-collar jobs from beginning to end
Notes Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990
Streaming video file
Credits Cinematographers, Peter Gilbert, Kevin Keating, Hart Perry, Mark T. Peterson, Mathieu Roberts ; editors and co-directors, Cathy Caplan, Tom Haneke, Lawrence Silk ; music, Michael Small
Performer Lewie Anderson, Ray Rogers, Jesse Jackson
Notes MPAA rating: PG-13
Soundtrack in English; closed captioned
Academy Award, Best Documentary,1990
Description based on online resource; title from title frame (Kanopy, viewed September 17, 2020)
Subject United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 9 (Austin, Minn.)
Geo. A. Hormel & Company.
SUBJECT Geo. A. Hormel & Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00589195
United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 9 (Austin, Minn.) fast (OCoLC)fst00644450
Subject Geo. A. Hormel & Company Strike, Austin, Minn., 1985-1986.
Strikes and lockouts -- Meat industry -- Minnesota -- Austin
Labor unions -- Minnesota -- Austin
Labor unions -- History -- Case studies
Working class -- History -- Case studies
Industrial relations -- History -- Case studies
Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History
Packing-house workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History
Packing-house workers -- Labor unions -- Minnesota -- Austin -- History
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
Working class.
Strikes and lockouts.
Packing-house workers -- Labor unions.
Labor unions.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Industrial relations.
Economic history.
Children.
Strikes and lockouts -- Meat industry.
SUBJECT Austin (Minn.) -- Economic conditions
Subject United States.
Minnesota -- Austin.
Genre/Form Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
History.
Feature films.
Case studies.
Documentary films.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Form Streaming video
Author Kopple, Barbara, film director, film producer.
Cohn, Arthur, 1928- film producer.
Gilbert, Peter, 1957- cinematographer.
Keating, Kevin, 1944- cinematographer.
Perry, Hart, cinematographer.
Peterson, Mark T., cinematographer.
Roberts, Mathieu, cinematographer.
Caplan, Cathy, editor of moving image work, film director.
Haneke, Tom, editor of moving image work, film director.
Silk, Lawrence, editor of moving image work, film director.
Small, Michael, composer (expression)
Anderson, Lewie, interviewee (expression)
Rogers, Ray (Actor), interviewee (expression)
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- interviewee (expression)
Prestige (Firm), production company.
Miramax Films, production company.
Cabin Creek Films, publisher.