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Title: Videodrome

Date: 25.12.2008
Time: 20:00
Location: Culture Box
Free entrance

Director: Marc Singer
Country: Switzerland
Language: English
Subs: English
Runtime, min: 85
Genre: Documentary

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

Watch trailer:
» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7va4f6-54KI

Links
» http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3526106/Punishment.Park.1971.USA.Peter.Watkins.DVDrip.XviD
» http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_Park