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Movie Recommendations

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There are many films that can be watched to facilitate increased knowledge about the time period covered in Out of the Furnace, 1880-1940. Here are some recommendations:

Movie Recommendations

(Films set in the time period between 1880-1940)

Black Fury (1935)	Michael Curtiz	A story of a coal miner who gets brutally beaten from protesting the horrible working conditions, and also his friend gets killed from the company men.	The Filmography of Michael Curtiz (Video)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	John Ford	A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless is the Great Depression.	The Grapes of Wrath - Movie Trailer
Matewan (1987)	John Sayles	A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.	Matewan - Movie Clip
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)	Robert Redford	In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.	The Milagro Beanfield War - Movie Clip
North Country (2005)	Niki Caro	A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.	North Country - Movie Trailer
Silkwood (1983	Mike Nichols	The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.	Silkwood - Movie Trailer
There Will Be Blood (2007)	Paul Thomas Anderson	A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.	There Will Be Blood - Movie Trailer
October Sky	Joe Johnston	A story set in 1957, about a coal miners son. It shows the struggles of a young boy who doesn't want to work in the dangerous mines. He works hard on a rocket to get a scholarship for college. He has to quit school and work in the mine when his father gets injured in the mine. It is a little out of the time period but shows how hard mine work is.	October Sky Trailer
How Green Was My Valley	John Ford		How Green Was My Valley Movie
Grapes of Wrath