The Killing Floor
Celebrating Black History
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1h 58m
Directed by Bill Duke | 118 mins | 1984
Having made inroads in Hollywood as a character actor, Bill Duke made his directorial debut with this raw and deeply researched made-for-TV movie set in Chicago’s stockyards in the early days of the Great Migration. Duke mines the volatile intersection of race and the organized labor movement, following a Southern former sharecropper who finds himself caught up in the splintering politics of his new workplace.
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