Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: WCCFT Scholarships : Find Media

Feature Films

On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan, Dir.
Call Number: Media PN1997 .O542 2001
Publication Date: 2001 (orig. 1954)

An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss.
Norma Rae by Ritt, Martin (Dir.)
Call Number: Media PN1997 .N676
Publication Date: 1996 (org. 1979)

Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.

Finding Media

Media can be found using the library catalog. DVDs (and some older VHS) will have their call numbers preceeded with MEDIA. Most DVDs are found on the first floor near the computers.

Some items are found at the Circulation Desk. The call numbers for these items will be preceeded with MEDIA, CIRC DESK and a 2 or 3 digit number. You will need the item number to request the item at the desk.

Documentaries

Salt of the Earth by Herbert Biberman (Dir.)
Call Number: Media PN1997 .S25 2004
Publication Date: 2004 (orig. 1954)

A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
Miles of Smiles by Wagner, Paul (dir.)
Call Number: Media HD6515.P659 M54 2009
Publication Date: 2009 (org. 1983)
Personal narratives of the retired porters about their work and duties on the Pullman trains and the formation of their union.