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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.
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Jun 15, 2020 · Film Movement. 88.4K subscribers. Subscribed. 109. 13K views 3 years ago. Now available on DVD and blu-ray: https://www.filmmovement.com/product/... During World War I, a poor black Southerner...
Jun 26, 2020 · What to Stream: “The Killing Floor,” a Historical Drama of Racial Conflict and the Labor Movement. By Richard Brody. June 26, 2020. “The Killing Floor,” directed by Bill Duke, dramatizes a...
Violence, language, racism in excellent historical drama. Read Common Sense Media's The Killing Floor review, age rating, and parents guide.
The story of a black slaughterhouse worker who was part of the pioneering attempt to unionize the often fractious Chicago meatpackers at the end of World War I. But the post-war recession only increased the racial tensions already simmering within the slaughterhouses and stockyards and...
The Killing Floor. DRAMA. Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards.
Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards.
