The Killing Floor
DramaRated PG
Box Office: $0.0M
When Announced | When Released | |||
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In Theaters | Made for TV | |||
On 4K-UHD | Not Available | Alert Me | Remind Me | |
On Blu-ray | November 24 2020 | Now Available | ||
On DVD | November 24 2020 | Now Available |
PRINCIPAL CAST
Damien Leake, Moses Gunn, Alfre Woodard
DIRECTOR
William Duke
WRITER
Leslie Lee
SYNOPSIS
A film by Bill Duke; An Elsa Rassbach Production. Newly restored in 4K and praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
GENRE
Drama
RATING
Rated PG
RUN TIME
118 Minutes