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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.
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...
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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...
A 1984 movie that depicts the labor movement and racism in the Chicago meatpacking industry during and after World War I. Based on a true story, it follows two friends who face violence, discrimination, and union struggles in the stockyards.
- Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina
- Bill Duke
- PBS
A drama based on the true story of a black slaughterhouse worker who fought for workers' rights in post-war Chicago. The film explores the racial and economic conflicts in the meatpacking industry and the stockyards.
- Bill Duke
- Clarence Felder
The Killing Floor is a historical drama film directed by Bill Duke, based on a true story of interracial labor union organizing in the Chicago Stockyards. The film premiered on PBS and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award in 1985.
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.
