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Salt of the Earth

Biberman, Herbert J. (director)
Date Written:  14/03/1954
Year Published:  1954  
A film based on the long and difficult strike in 1951 against the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico. The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. The producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. The film was called subversive and blacklisted because the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers sponsored it and many blacklisted Hollywood professional helped produce it.

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