Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also depicts their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. It was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Luis Valdez
Narrator
Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also depicts their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. It was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
When the grape pickers of California reject the intervention of the Teamsters and overwhelmingly vote to remain in their own United Farmers Union, their subsequent strike action pits them not only against their employers but also against “enforcers” from the union they declined to join. With the courts weighing in with injunctions limiting their picketing opportunities and then the workers being intimidated and even brutalised, the struggle for their rights becomes a dangerous and violent one. The police appear, at the start anyway, to be trying to remain impartial but as this dispute protracts, even they begin to operate on the wrong side of increasingly frayed legal boundaries. It’s hard to imagine fifty years later just how hard it was to produce a feature like this. The photography has to be carried out in the open, using half-ton hand held-cameras and microphones but director Glen Pearcy still manages to get to the places where it must have been risky to go. It also assembles some decent interview footage from strikers and their representatives, and showcases just how obnoxious some of the growers were as they used all the tools at their disposal to break the resilience of their lowly paid employees. I’m not sure it needed to be an hour long, though. Not to trivialise it’s message, but once it’d had made it’s point it lacked contrasting perspectives from either the Teamsters or the owners to at least give it a sense of balance and somi felt it became a little too laboured. It is worth a watch as an illustration of not just how desperate industrial relations in early 1970s America could be, but of how trades unions weren't necessarily on the same side, either.
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.
สารคดีที่เล่าเรื่องราวของเบื้องหลังความเป็นมาของนักเตะดาวดังที่ประสบความสำเร็จมากที่สุดของรุ่น ในยุคที่ฟุตบอลอังกฤษถือเป็นจุดสูงสุด โดยเฉพาะเด็กหนุ่มยอดนักเตะดาวรุ่งพุ่งแรง 6 คนจากชนชั้นกลางที่ได้เข้ามาอยู่ร่วมทีมกันในสโมสร แมนเชสเตอร์ ยูไนเต็ด อันได้แก่ เดวิด เบ็คแฮม, นิคกี้ บัตต์, ไรอัน กิกส์, แกรี่ เนวิลล์, ฟิล เนวิลล์ และ พอล สโคลส์
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
จากผลงานของผู้อำนวยการสร้าง โอปราห์ วินฟรีย์ สารคดีเปิดหมดเปลือกนี้ทำขึ้นเพื่อเป็นเกียรติแก่ซิดนีย์ พอทิเยร์ ตำนานแห่งนักแสดง ผู้สร้างหนังและนักกิจกรรมผู้เรียกร้องสิทธิพลเมือง ร่วมด้วยบทสัมภาษณ์เดนเซล วอชิงตัน, สไปค์ ลี. บาร์บารา สไตรแซนด์ และอื่นๆ อีกมาก
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.
A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
สารคดีเผยชีวิตของแอนนา นิโคล สมิธผ่านสายตาของผู้คนใกล้ชิด ตั้งแต่ช่วงที่โด่งดังเป็นพลุแตกในฐานะนางแบบ ไปจนถึงการเสียชีวิตที่น่าเศร้า
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.