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Matewan / presented by Cinecom Entertainment Group and Film Gallery in association with Goldcrest ; a Red Dog Films Production ; produced by Peggy Rajski and Maggie Renzi ; written and directed by John Sayles.
LIBRA DVD 009 760
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921--Drama.
- Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Fullscreen format.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment, [1999]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption, and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
- Participant:
- Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Haskell Wexler; editor, Sonya Polonsky; music, Mason Daring.
- Notes:
- Special features: production notes, theatrical trailer.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1987.
- ISBN:
- 1574927833
- OCLC:
- 43496032
- Publisher Number:
- 7007729100461
- 10046 Artisan Home Entertainment
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