American dream [videorecording] / Miramax Films, Prestige Films presents a Cabin Creek Film production ; produced by Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn ; directed by Barbara Kopple.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher:
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video,
Documentary. Originally produced as motion picture by Cabin Creek Films in 1990. Special features include Children of the night, an Arthur Cohn production, with an introduction by Marion Wiesel.
Summary:
In this Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991, the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota is documented from beginning to end. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike.
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