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Feb 12, 2024 · The Kill Floor, by Carlos Avila, is a narrative film inspired by the true-life situation that many Latino meat industry workers found themselves in during the early days of the Coronavirus...
Follow the story of the first undocumented attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court. A young Latinx reporter investigates a COVID outbreak in his hometown meatpacking plant.
The Kill Floor, by Carlos Avila, is a narrative film inspired by the true-life situation that many Latino meat industry workers found themselves in during the early days of the Coronavirus...
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Jun 12, 2020 · "The Killing Floor" looks to union organizing by Chicago's slaughterhouse workers during World War I. The 1984 made-for-TV movie has been digitally restored and is now available on streaming...
The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919.
Nov 12, 2022 · Few films capture the difficulties of interracial working-class organizing as well as the 1984 movie The Killing Floor, a drama about black slaughterhouse workers attempting to build a union with white ethnic coworkers in Chicago’s World War I–era stockyards.
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Nov 22, 2020 · “The Killing Floor,” newly restored for Film Movement, is a well-researched, swirling period piece about the real people who integrated Chicago’s stockyards and unions in events leading up to the city’s post-World War I race riots of 1919.
