Joe Hill
"I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night. Alive as you or me. Says I, but Joe you're ten years dead. I never died says he."
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8/25/1971Runtime
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In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
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A passionate biographical epic about a labor organizer who uses song as a weapon against injustice, tracing his rise as an agitator and his tragic fall through a system designed to crush him. The film moves with the momentum of a protest march, building toward an inevitable collision between one man's defiance and the machinery of power arrayed against him.
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