The overnighters
Type
Label
The overnighters
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
NRT
Main title
The overnighters
Medium
electronic resource
Runtime
101
Series statement
Drafthouse Films, no. 27
Summary
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, this award-winning documentary is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota, and the local pastor who risks everything to help them
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Subject
- Migrant labor -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Petroleum industry and trade + Social aspects -- North Dakota
- Job hunting -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Reinke, Jay, 1956-
- Immigrants -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Williston (N.D.) -- Economic conditions
- Oil industries -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Concordia Lutheran Church (Williston, N.D.)
- Clergy -- North Dakota -- Williston -- Biography
- Lutheran Church + Clergy -- Biography
- Church work with migrant labor -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Unemployment -- North Dakota -- Williston
Content
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Is Part Of
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor6
- Genre1
- Subject13
- Migrant labor -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Petroleum industry and trade + Social aspects -- North Dakota
- Job hunting -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Reinke, Jay, 1956-
- Immigrants -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Williston (N.D.) -- Economic conditions
- Oil industries -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Concordia Lutheran Church (Williston, N.D.)
- Clergy -- North Dakota -- Williston -- Biography
- Lutheran Church + Clergy -- Biography
- Church work with migrant labor -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Unemployment -- North Dakota -- Williston
- Content1
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmproducer2
- Is Part Of1
- composerexpression1
- intervieweeexpression2
- resource.screenwriter1