Chicago Stockyards Killing Floor

The killing floor re released.

Chicago stockyards killing floor.

But those in. The screenplay by obie award winner leslie lee based on an original story by producer elsa rassbach traces the racial. The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are. Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama.

Praised by the village voice as the most clear eyed account of union organizing on film the killing floor tells the little known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the chicago stockyards. Now showing as part of film forum s pandemic induced virtual cinema program the killing floor is a striking illustration of the need to synthesize class and race based on the experience of trying to build a trade union in chicago s stockyards during wwi it is an object lesson on the need to abandon white privilege. Praised by the village voice as the most clear eyed account of union organizing on film the killing floor tells the little known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the chicago stockyards. The killing floor is a 1984 american award winning made for television drama film directed by bill duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the chicago race riot of 1919 the film debuted on pbs via the american playhouse series on april 10 1984 and was produced by public forum productions.