Matewan (1987)
• August 28th, 1987 • 2h 12min
Drama, History
Overview
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Theory of Everything
Released on: 2014-11-07
Drama, Romance
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...
Amores Perros
Released on: 2000-06-16
Drama, Thriller
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a sup...
Billy Elliot
Released on: 2000-09-28
Drama, Comedy, Music
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...
Before Sunrise
Released on: 1995-01-27
Drama, Romance
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. A...
Before Sunset
Released on: 2004-06-16
Drama, Romance
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...
Anatomy of a Murder
Released on: 1959-07-01
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
All About My Mother
Released on: 1999-04-16
Comedy, Drama
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attemp...
Wings of Desire
Released on: 1987-09-23
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...
Breaking the Waves
Released on: 1996-07-05
Drama, Romance
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...
The 400 Blows
Released on: 1959-06-03
Drama
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
The Straight Story
Released on: 1999-10-15
Drama, Family
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...
La Strada
Released on: 1954-09-23
Drama
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...
La Haine
Released on: 1995-05-31
Drama
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
The English Patient
Released on: 1996-11-14
Drama, Romance, War
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...
8½
Released on: 1963-02-14
Drama
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...
Schindler's List
Released on: 1993-12-15
Drama, History, War
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
La Dolce Vita
Released on: 1960-02-05
Comedy, Drama
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...
Human Nature
Released on: 2001-09-12
Drama, Comedy
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...
A Beautiful Mind
Released on: 2001-12-14
Drama, Romance
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
Erin Brockovich
Released on: 2000-03-17
Drama
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...