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  1. Release. April 10, 1984. (1984-04-10) The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1] The film debuted on PBS via the American ...

  2. During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

  3. Rassbach developed the project together with a cohort of historians and screenwriters, though The Killing Floor was the only film ever made in the series. [11] To recognize the 100th anniversary of the Chicago race riots in 2019, the film underwent 4K DCP digital restoration by the University of California-Los Angeles Film & Television Archive.

  4. Rez Ball. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie. Caddo Lake. The Forge. Anora. Kinds of Kindness. Never Let Go. Joker: Folie à Deux. Meet the talented cast and crew behind 'The Killing Floor' on Moviefone.

  5. The Killing Floor: Directed by Gideon Raff. With Marc Blucas, Joel Leffert, Shiri Appleby, Jeffrey Carlson. A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.

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    • Crime, Horror, Mystery
    • Gideon Raff
    • 2007-05-10
  6. Review by Joshua Dysart ★★★★½ 13. There are very few things more purely illustrative of the human politics of community and the complexity of solidarity than an American union story. Here Bill Duke - one of the greatest things about Predator - directs with a sure hand the story of a poor Mississippi sharecropper who leaves his family ...

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  8. Featuring a dynamic cast of top-notch character actors including Alfre Woodard and Moses Gunn as well as Chicago theater veterans like Dennis Farina and John Mahoney, the film was given a full 4K DCP digital restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2019 in honor of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Chicago race riots, which are depicted and covered in the movie.

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