American Dream

Documentarian Barbara Kopple weighs in with an unsettling account of the months-long strike of employees at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minn., in 1984. Juxtaposed against the Reagan administration’s demolition of the nation’s air traffic controllers’ union, the Hormel strikers... See more found themselves picketing during the worst climate for organized labor since the 19th century. Oscar winner for Best Documentary in 1991.