Documentary Film Work
Green's interest in labor history and involvement in the American labor movement has led him to become involved with a number of documentary films.
In 1989, Green was supporting coal miners who had struck the Pittston Coal Group. Documentary film-maker Barbara Kopple, commissioned to create a centennial history of the United Mine Workers, was there filming the strike and employed Green as a consultant. The film became Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story. He received an associate producer credit on the picture.
In 1992 and 1993, Green worked as a researcher and consultant on "The Great Depression," a seven-part documentary which aired by the PBS television show, "American Experience". Afterward, he served on the community advisory board of local Boston public television station, WGBH, from 1993 to 1994.
From 1995 to 1996, Green served as a consultant to the film The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers. The film later aired on PBS.
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