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Jim Klein
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Jim Klein has been an active member of the independent film movement since the early 1970s. He is a founder of the pioneering film distribution co-operative New Day Films and active in the filmmaker organizations that shaped the field. With partner, Julia Reichert, he created such innovative documentaries as Growing Up Female, the first documentary about women from a feminist perspective, which was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress; Academy Award nominee Union Maids, one of the first oral history films; and Academy Award nominee Seeing Red, a challenging film about American communists. His films Letter to the Next Generation and Taken for a Ride both had nati…
Known for
6.4A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
1983
6.2How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
Taken for a Ride
1996
6.8Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.
Union Maids
1976
5.7Following the lives of six girls and women between the ages of four and thirty-five, this documentary examines how American society shapes female identity through family, education, media, and expectations about marriage.
Growing Up Female
1971
The clients of a Dayton, Ohio drug withdrawal clinic, many of whom are workers in the area factories, are the subject of this socially conscious documentary
Methadone: An American Way of Dealing
1974
8.0Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim Klein, a 60's radical-turned-filmmaker (Union Maids, Seeing Red) visits the campus of Kent State to probe behind the stereotypes. Together with young patrons of the local tanning salon, activists-turned-professors, and an ROTC captain, Klein ponders the social forces that are changing campuses and the country in the 90's.
Letter to the Next Generation
1990
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6.4A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
1983
6.2How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
Taken for a Ride
1996
6.8Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.
Union Maids
1976
5.7Following the lives of six girls and women between the ages of four and thirty-five, this documentary examines how American society shapes female identity through family, education, media, and expectations about marriage.
Growing Up Female
1971
5.7Following the lives of six girls and women between the ages of four and thirty-five, this documentary examines how American society shapes female identity through family, education, media, and expectations about marriage.
Growing Up Female
1971
5.7Following the lives of six girls and women between the ages of four and thirty-five, this documentary examines how American society shapes female identity through family, education, media, and expectations about marriage.
Growing Up Female
1971
The clients of a Dayton, Ohio drug withdrawal clinic, many of whom are workers in the area factories, are the subject of this socially conscious documentary
Methadone: An American Way of Dealing
1974
8.0Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim Klein, a 60's radical-turned-filmmaker (Union Maids, Seeing Red) visits the campus of Kent State to probe behind the stereotypes. Together with young patrons of the local tanning salon, activists-turned-professors, and an ROTC captain, Klein ponders the social forces that are changing campuses and the country in the 90's.
Letter to the Next Generation
1990