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The Inheritance

The film explores the courageous journey of immigrants and working-class individuals from the early 20th century to the 1960s, highlighting their unrelenting drive to build a brighter future in the face of adversity.

Life for immigrants and working Americans from the early 20th century to the 1960s was marked by struggle and perseverance. The film explores this largely unknown history, showcasing dim sweatshops, coal mines, and textile mills filled with children, as well as the anxious years of the depression and labor's bloody fight for the right to organize. It also depicts the battlefields of WW I and II, and the civil rights struggle, as each generation fights to preserve and extend its freedoms.

Info about The Inheritance

Studio(s): Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Harold Mayer Production

Originally Released: United States, Nov 08, 1964

Genres:Documentary