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A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's
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Format: | Unknown |
Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles, CA] :
Evergreen Entertainment,
1996
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Summary: | A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's |
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Item Description: | Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired Not rated Originally released as motion picture in 1987 Stereo "October Films." |
Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (VHS) (142 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in |
Format: | VHS |
Production Credits: | Music, Mason Daring ; editor, Sonya Polonsky ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler ; producers, Peggy Rajski, Maggie Renzi ; writer/director, John Sayles |
ISBN: | 1574923609 : |