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Originally released as a motion picture in 1954 by Independent Productions Corporation and the
International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers
Includes the entire short film, The Hollywood ten; autobiographies, articles and reviews, plus
the original screenplay by Michael Wilson in English, Spanish, French and German; hundreds of
photographs from the original strike and from the production of the film; critical, historical and
biographical essays.
Salt of the earth is a semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Mexican American zinc
miners in New Mexico. When an injunction is issued against the workers, the wives take up
battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children.
Produced independently
by blacklisted filmmakers,
Hollywood ten is a documentary about ten filmmakers who defied the House Committee on
Un-American Activities in 1947 and were imprisoned for contempt of Congress.
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