American cinema in the past used to make films which is not allowed to make today. One such example can be provided by films that are explicitly leftist in their political orientation and in which left-wing politics actually means something more than putting gender pronouns in Twitter bios. Add sympathetic portrayal of labour unions, institution that mainstream Hollywood studio executives despised, and such films be…
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Matewan
Matewan is a 1987 American independent film drama written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. The film dramatizes the events of the 1920 Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia.
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