Matewan
By: [presented by] Cinecom Entertainment Group and Film Gallery in association with Goldcrest ; a Red Dog Films production
Contributors: Cooper, Chris; Jones, James Earl; McDonnell, Mary; Oldham, Will; Cinecom Entertainment Group; Film Gallery; Goldcrest Films International; Red Dog Films; Evergreen Entertainment (Firm)
Series: SOC 540 (NU course)
Publisher: Evergreen Entertainment
Published: 1987
Place of publication: [Los Angeles, CA]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921; Drama; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Feature films
Description: A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1987.

Stereo.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

"October Films."

Music, Mason Daring ; editor, Sonya Polonsky ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler ; producers, Peggy Rajski, Maggie Renzi ; writer/director, John Sayles.

Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham.

VHS.