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- In 1981 Lee Grant directed a documentary on the Willmar 8 entitled The Willmar 8. A 1984 docudrama, A Matter of Sex, also directed by Lee Grant, was based on events related to the strike.
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Apr 24, 1981 · The Willmar 8: Directed by Lee Grant. With Glennis Andresen, Doris Boshart, Terry Caine, Sylvia Erickson. Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.
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In 1981 Lee Grant directed a documentary on the Willmar 8 entitled The Willmar 8. A 1984 docudrama, A Matter of Sex, also directed by Lee Grant, was based on events related to the strike.
Jan 12, 2024 · The film also uses interviews with filmmaker Lee Grant and producer Mary Beth McCarthy, who created the 1981 documentary called "The Willmar 8" and news coverage from the time of the strike.
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The Willmar 8 Academy Award winner Lee Grant's feature directorial debut follows eight women in America's heartland who are driven by gender discrimination to picket the bank where they work, in the dead of winter.
Dec 19, 2019 · Due to legal reasons, we are unable to show Lee Grant’s Women on Trial. In its place we’ll be showing Grant’s first documentary The Willmar 8 (1981), about the 1977 strike by female employees of the Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota over sex discrimination.
- December 19, 2019
Charting a pivotal strike for pay equality in the late 1970s, Lee Grant’s first documentary astutely contextualizes labor justice within the fight for female empowerment. In the face of sexist workplace practices and uncaring state institutions, the resilience of the picketers left a lasting legacy.
Rent The Willmar 8 on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A stirring film about the cost of standing up for your own worth. Feb 13, 2024. Lee Grant....
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