those of you who frequent this forum

[barbtries]

are probably well aware of this film. but i just finished watching it - you can watch it instantly on Netflix. and it's a damn good movie if you ask me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/
Harlan County USA

just wanted to share that :)

[elocs]

1. I'll put that in my Netflix queue. Netflix streaming is great.

I use my Roku box to watch movie, documentaries, and tv shows on my 50" plasma and they look good to me (otherwise they would look like crap on a 50" screen). Plus I can get 3 Blu Ray dvds a week, one out at a time and so far I've always gotten what I wanted.

[barbtries]

2. i watch everything right on my computer

and am in a documentary phase. they have 1000's. for less than $10 a month, i will never have cable or satellite tv again.

[Uben]

3. For a $100 you can buy a Yoku box.....

...and watch it on your tv. I get to watch everything on Netflix on a 73" HDTV! I haven't been to a movie theater in 10 yrs!

[barbtries]

4. my tv is no 73" ! lol

i think it's 27". my monitor is almost as big.

[elocs]

5. Although I have a 28" computer monitor I like to surf while I watch tv.

I have no cable or satellite and have not for years. I have an antenna on the roof and get good high def tv for free over the air. Using my Roku box with Netflix I have thousands of hours of all sorts of things to watch (plus, with Roku they recently added some other channels). Also using Roku I can has access to all of the thousands of videos that Amazon has to rent and every week they have some good .99 cent or $1.99 selections with most of the recent ones going for $3.99. I pay Netflix a little more for Blu Ray dvds, but my turnaround is about every other day in the city I live (watch a movie on Monday and return it to the PO that day and another one comes to my house on Wednesday).

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. BIG K & R!!! "One of the Ten GREATEST Films about America"

http://www.soundonsight.org/ten-greatest-films-about-america/

1)Nashville (1975)
2)Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
3)Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
4)The New World (2005)
5)Sullivan’s Travels (1942)
6)The Searchers (1956)
7)Citizen Kane (1941)
8)1776 (1972)
9)JFK (1991)
10)Harlan County USA (1976)

Barbra Koppel’s landmark documentary follows the mine strikes in Harlan County in 1973. The images and monuments the film captures linger in the mind for a long time.

3 minute trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCiVMngILEI&feature=player_embedded

"If I get shot, they can't shoot the Union out of me"

Thanks for sharing this!!:fistbump:

[barbtries]

7. absolutely

in 54 years i can't recall ever having even heard of it. but it is excellent.

[StarfarerBill]

8. Thanks for this. :) Another great pro-labor film: John Sayles's "Matewan".

It's a fictionalized account of the bloody struggle for unionization in the West Virginia coal town of Matewan during the early 1920s.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/

[barbtries]

9. thanks for the tip

i'll check it out.

[StarfarerBill]

10. You're welcome.

:)