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Bisbee '17

Title: Bisbee '17 / Impact Partners presents ; a 4th Row Films production ; in association with Concordia Studio ; Artemis Rising Foundation ; and Doc Society Circle ; a film by Robert Greene ; directed by Robert Greene ; produced by Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott ; edited & written by Robert Greene.
Publication: [United States] : Grasshopper Film, [2019]

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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Radically combining collaborative documentary, western, and musical elements, the new film follows several members of a close-knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town₂s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert, and left there to die.
Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps. 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West, against Harry Wheeler, the last of the two-gun sheriffs. In this class-war western, they face each other down in the streets of Bisbee, pitting a general strike against the largest posse ever assembled.
Based on a true story, Bisbee '17 vividly re-creates a West of miners and copper magnates, bindlestiffs and scissorbills, army officers, private detectives, and determined revolutionaries. Against this backdrop runs the story of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, strike organizer from the East, caught between the worlds of her ex-husband - the Bisbee strike leader - and her new lover, an Italian anarchist from New York.
As the tumultuous weeks of the strike unfold, she struggles to sort out what she really feels about both of them, and about the West itself.
"Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation."--Film website: https://www.bisbee17.com/about.

Alternative Title

Bisbee seventeen
Bisbee 1917
Bisbee nineteen seventeen

Subject

Copper Miners' Strike, Bisbee, Ariz., 1917 > Fiction

Genre/Form

Nonfiction films.
History.
Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)
Documentary films.
Feature films.

Note

Title from disc label.
Originally produced in 2018.
Special features: Audio Commentary by Director Robert Greene, Bisbee '17 Shorts, Ghost Towns of Arizona, a short film by Robert Greene, Deleted and Extended Scenes, Theatrical Trailers.

Credits (note)

Music, Keegan DeWitt ; Cinematographer, Jarred Alterman.

Performer (note)

Fernando Serrano, Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea.

System Details (note)

DVD; NTSC, all regions; widescreen presentation; Dolby Audio 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 descriptive.

LCCN

853294007329

OCLC

on1090680769
1090680769
SCSB-3663490

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Columbia University Libraries