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A little-known chapter of American labor history is brought vividly to life in this period drama from writer-director John Sayles. It's a fictional story about labor wars among West Virginia coal miners during the 1920's, but every detail is so right that the film has the unmistakable ring of truth. The tension begins when the Stone Mountain Coal Company of Matewan, West Virginia, announces a ...

Manufacturer: Evergreen Ent
Starring: Jace Alexander, Tom Carlin, Gordon Clapp, Chris Cooper, Joe Grifasi

Manufacturer: Starmaker Entertainment
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea, Emily Perkins
Directed By: David Greene

Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Starring: Megan Follows, Norma Dell'Agnese, Hanna Lee, Elliott Smith, Debra McGrath
Directed By: Allan King

Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men Out illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988 film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp, John Cusack, James Desmond, Richard Edson

Manufacturer: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea, Emily Perkins
Directed By: David Greene

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Artisan
Starring: Treat Williams, Linda Hamilton, Jonathan Jackson, Gordon Clapp, Schuyler Fisk
Directed By: Wayne Powers (II)

Manufacturer: Fries Home Video
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea, Emily Perkins
Directed By: David Greene

When an ex-con finds his lover is hooked up with a lawyer, he?ll do anything to win her back. But when ' 'the Junkman' ' kidnaps her, suddenly the two men find themselves united in a desperate fight to save her life - a fight that takes place on the dark side of the law.

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Armand Assante, John Achorn, Joe Spano, John Dennis Johnston, Steve Rankin
Directed By: Larry Elikann

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Stacy Keach, Richard Thomas, Steve Landesberg, Don Harvey, Robert Cicchini
Directed By: Robert Iscove

Director William Friedkin knows a thing or two about staging harrowing action sequences, and if you don't believe that, you've never seen The French Connection or To Live and Die in L.A. He comes through niftily in this film as well, with an opening Vietnam battle sequence that sets the stage for the rest of the story, and then with the central moment in the film: a rescue mission ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood
Directed By: William Friedkin