cinehunch
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Matewan, it roots labor conflict in an Appalachian mining community, emphasizing solidarity, intimidation, and the human cost of organizing rather than reducing the struggle to slogans.
02
Why this pick
A morally tense coal-country labor drama with a deliberate pace, period grit, and close attention to how economic coercion fractures a working community.
03
Why this pick
Its unsentimental, community-centered portrait of a miners’ strike shares Matewan’s commitment to collective action, class conflict, and people finding political courage in daily hardship.
04
Why this pick
This factory-strike drama balances lived-in period detail with an evolving sense of solidarity, treating organizers and workers as flawed people rather than heroic abstractions.
05
Why this pick
Ken Loach brings the same grounded social realism and patient focus on workplace organizing, showing how a campaign grows from personal precarity and shared resolve.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
It was 1920 in the southwest West Virginia coal fields, and, as the narrator recalls, "things were tough." In response to efforts by miners to organize into a trade union, the Stone Mountain Coal Company announces it will cut the pay miners receive, and will be importing replacement workers into town to replace those who join the union. The new workers are African Americans from Alabama and are coming in on the train, but the train is stopped outside town and the black men are told to get off. Derided as "Strikebreaker", they are then attacked by the local miners, but manage to get back on the train and continue their journey.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
'Few Clothes' Johnson
Griggs
Hickey
Hardshell Preacher
C.E. Lively
Tom
Joe Kenehan
Elma Radnor
