his 1979 documentary established a new, primary-research modus for historical nonfiction�no narrator, no authorial perspective, just original documents and witnesses�but its subject matter was, and still is, its most radical characteristic. By the �70s American culture had been made to forget that the Industrial Workers of the World had ever existed, just as in the century�s first decades the segregated union utopia was condemned, brutalized, legislated against, campaigned against, and demonized.

Starring:

Joe Murphy, Roger Baldwin, Violet Miller

Genre:

Documentary