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People of the Cumberland is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Elia Kazan released in USA on 1 december 1937

People of the Cumberland (1937)

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Released in USA 1 december 1937
Length 18minutes
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Rating69% 3.4686253.4686253.4686253.4686253.468625

People of the Cumberland is a 1937 short film directed by Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda and produced by Frontier Films. The film is designed to support the U.S. labor union movement and it mixes non-fiction filmmaking and dramatic re-enactions.

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The film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining industry. The introduction of the Highlander Folk School in 1931 by educator Myles Horton and the movement to bring labor union representation to the region are shown as means of empowering the population. Efforts are made to stop the union activities with the murder of a local organizer, but eventually the union movement is able to take root with the local workforce.

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