The Killing Floor

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The Killing Floor is a 1984 American television drama film about African American stockyard workers in 1910s Chicago and their struggle to unionize amid racial tensions.

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instanceOf television film
awardReceived Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award
basedOn historical events in Chicago meatpacking industry
cinematographyBy Fred Murphy
countryOfOrigin United States
depictsEvent labor struggles in Chicago meatpacking industry
depictsOrganization Chicago stockyard unions
director Bill Duke
distributor PBS
filmEditingBy John Carter
genre drama
historical drama
hasTheme class struggle
interracial solidarity in labor movement
racism in the workplace
unionization
mainSubject African American stockyard workers
labor organizing
labor unions
racial tensions
medium television
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork PBS
partOfSeries American Playhouse
producer Elsa Rassbach
productionCompany Channel 4
PBS
WDR
publicationDate 1984
releaseFormat television broadcast
runtime approximately 118 minutes
screenwriter Elsa Rassbach
Leslie Lee
setInLocation Chicago
Chicago stockyards
setInTimePeriod 1910s
starredActor Alfre Woodard
Clarence Felder
Damien Leake
Dennis Farina
Ernest Rayford
John Mahoney
Moses Gunn
Rosanna Carter

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Frankie Faison notableWork The Killing Floor
Trini Alvarado notableWork The Killing Floor
subject linked to: Trini
Boot Hill basedOn The Killing Floor
Tess Harper notableWork The Killing Floor
Clarence Felder notableWork The Killing Floor