Movies: Fish Or Cut Bait Collective

  • 1991
    No Harbour for War

    No Harbour for War (1991)

    No Harbour for War

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    No Harbour for War documents the active movement in Halifax against the Gulf War of 1991 and the role of war played by Halifax from its founding in 1749 to the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, WWI and the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and the many war...

    No Harbour for War
  • 1979
    The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939

    The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939 (1979)

    The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939

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    In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town's only employers, Swim Brothers and the Lockeport Company. Both fishplants had locked their doors r...

    The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939
  • 1993
    Fish or Cut Bait

    Fish or Cut Bait (1993)

    Fish or Cut Bait

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    In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in Atlantic Canada to form a union. Until 1979 it was illegal for fishermen to form a union in Nova Scotia. Th...

    Fish or Cut Bait