North Country

Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota iron mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job ... (more)

Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota iron mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage, as the male miners, resentful of women taking their jobs, verbally and physically abuse the female miners. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit. (less)