Julia Reichert's now classic and still inspiring Union Maids, chronicling three women in the 1930s labor movement, was released in 1976.
While she was making that film, a group called 9to5, devoted to obtaining equal rights and fair conditions for women office workers, was gaining momentum.
It makes perfect sense that Reichert and Steven Bognar have now circled back to document that important and relatively little-known 1970's labor action.
Premiering as part of this year's virtual AFI Docs festival, 9to5: The Story of a Movement is their first film after the Oscar-winning American Factory, but its oral-history form allows it to fit easily as a companion piece to Union Maids.
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