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
Midnight Express
Released on: 1978-08-31
Drama, Crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
Runaway Jury
Released on: 2003-01-16
Drama, Thriller
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
The Zodiac
Released on: 2005-07-31
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, whi...
Walking Tall
Released on: 2004-04-02
Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prom...
Blood Simple
Released on: 1985-01-18
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair wi...
The Defiant Ones
Released on: 1958-08-14
Crime, Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
The Mission
Released on: 1986-09-06
Adventure, Drama, Action, History
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Released on: 2005-05-27
Comedy, Drama
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles...
Midway
Released on: 1976-06-18
Action, Drama, History, War
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...
Memories of Murder
Released on: 2003-04-25
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Kore...
Ted K
Released on: 2021-10-29
Drama, Crime
An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as ...
Flyboys
Released on: 2006-09-22
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...
Glory
Released on: 1989-12-15
Drama, History, War
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Infamous
Released on: 2006-10-13
Drama, Crime
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...
Sweet and Lowdown
Released on: 1999-12-03
Comedy, Drama, Music
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
North Country
Released on: 2005-02-12
Drama
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...
Bound by Honor
Released on: 1993-02-05
Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Pa...
Pumpkin
Released on: 2002-06-28
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenge...
The Alamo
Released on: 1960-10-23
War, Adventure, History, Western
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...
The American Friend
Released on: 1977-06-24
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...