This event is in the past.It took place on May 14, 2026 at IFC Center.
Documentary
DocumentaryWest Village, New York
🎬"A bracing hybrid, a documentary and a lamentation" (Washington Post)
📰"Captures an American town...and the deep and permanent ways in which those traditions can be destroyed" (NYT)
🎟️No assigned seating, arrive early
Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary chronicles a 1985-86 labor strike that tore a Minnesota meatpacking town apart. Workers, unions, and the National Guard collide in this raw portrait of American working-class struggle.
Oscar-winning documentary
Working-class struggle
1980s labor history
Community divided
DocumentaryDocumentaryWest Village, New York
🎬"A bracing hybrid, a documentary and a lamentation" (Washington Post)
📰"Captures an American town...and the deep and permanent ways in which those traditions can be destroyed" (NYT)
🎟️No assigned seating, arrive early
Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary chronicles a 1985-86 labor strike that tore a Minnesota meatpacking town apart. Workers, unions, and the National Guard collide in this raw portrait of American working-class struggle.
Oscar-winning documentary
Working-class struggle
1980s labor history
Community divided