The Willmar 8 / produced by Mary Beth Yarrow, Julie Thompson ; directed by Lee Grant ; narration written by Lee Grant ; a G.T.Y. production.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Grant, Lee, 1927- director, narrator.

Yarrow, Mary Beth, producer.

Thompson, Julie (Producer), producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), distributor.

G.T.Y. Productions, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in employment--Minnesota--Willmar.

Sex discrimination against women--Minnesota--Willmar.

Women bank employees--Minnesota--Willmar.

Strikes and lockouts--Bank employees--Minnesota--Willmar.

Independent unions--Minnesota--Willmar.

Citizens National Bank (Willmar, Minn.).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (51 minutes)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1980.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The Willmar 8 is Academy Award winner Lee Grant's documentary about working women which has been featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, excerpted on 60 Minutes, and was broadcast nationally by PBS. The film tells the story of eight unassuming, apolitical women in America's heartland--Willmar, Minnesota--who were driven by sex discrimination at work to take the most unexpected step of their lives and found themselves in the forefront of the struggle for women's rights. Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, they began the longest bank strike in American history in a dramatic attempt to assert their own equality and self-worth.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 01, 2017).

OCLC:

1022752753