Screening of "The Killing Floor"

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 7:30pm

IU Cinema and Working Class Studies present The Killing Floor,  Wednesday, May 31st, 7:30 PM, with a discussion to follow. The Killing Floor explores the conflicting loyalties of African-American stockyards workers in Chicago during the First World War. Starring Damon Leake and Moses Gunn, the story pits a black worker who joins an interracial union against his rival who believes that blacks must look after themselves. Based on impeccable historical research into the lives of actual stockyard workers, this powerful docudrama won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. At IU Cinema.