| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: The Homestead Strike. Dir. by Rory Kennedy. Prod. by Rory Kennedy, Liz Garbus, and Jack Youngelson. History Channel, 2006. 60 mins. (A&E Home Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407; 888-423-1212; http://www.store.aetv.com/)

Thirteen years after the release of Steffi Domike's film, The River Ran Red (1993), a new film narrating the 1892 lockout of workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, has hit the nation's television screens. With the Homestead Strike installment of the History Channel's Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America series, director Rory Kennedy presents an engaging look at issues of employment and capitalism. Domike's and Kennedy's treatments share elements: the familiar mix of archival images and reenactments, plaintive shots of the Monongahela River, and the narrative line established in David Demarest Jr.'s 1992 document collection (The River Ran Red). Yet whereas Domike stressed the effects of the events on the town itself, Kennedy broadens the scope to suggest that Homestead's catastrophe was also the nation's.

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