Search results
Jun 26, 2020 · Richard Brody writes about the film “The Killing Floor,” directed by Bill Duke, which dramatizes the history of a union at a meat-packing plant in Chicago.
Apr 10, 1984 · Tonight's presentation on Channel 13 at 9 o'clock is ''The Killing Floor,'' a two-hour film that is really a pilot for a proposed separate series about American workers.
Feb 22, 2021 · The Killing Floor knows all of this. It depicts the attempt to form an interracial union at a Chicago meatpacking plant in the years leading up to the race riots of 1919’s Red Summer. It is on one level an archetypical Great Migration tale.
Jun 12, 2020 · Courtesy Film Movement Classics. “The Killing Floor,” the first feature directed by Bill Duke, from 1984, is a revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in...
- Condé Nast
Movies. The Killing Floor. The first feature directed by Bill Duke, from 1984, is a revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in fiction. The film follows...
The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919.
People also ask
Why is the Killing Floor a good story?
Why is the Killing Floor a logical antipathy and great expectation?
Who is Bill Duke in 'the Killing Floor'?
Jun 11, 2020 · An incisive fact-based chronicle of the first big attempt made by Chicago slaughterhouse workers to fight against workplace abuse by joining an interracial union — before the city erupted in chaos during the horrific race riots of 1919 — gifted actor turned director Bill Duke's The Killing Floor originally premiered on PBS network's ...
