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Willmar 8, The [Available March 16 via streaming on MUBI.] Lee Grant narrates her eye-opening, informative, inspirational, 54-minute, 1981 documentary that follows eight courageous Citizens National Bank employees, including head bookkeeper Doris Boshart, head teller Irene Wallin, bookkeeper and teller Sandi Tremil, bookkeepers Shirley Solynties and Teren Novotny, tellers Glennis Andresen and Sylvia Erickson, and head proof operator Jane Harguth, who went on a 2-year strike in Willmar, Minn., on Dec. 16, 1977, due to gender discrimination and lack of salary equality and advancement opportunities and consists of commentary by Methodist Church Rev. Clair Siple, attorney John Mack, sociologist Terry Caine, Minnesota AFL-CIO president David K. Roe, former president of Willmar's branch of National Organization of Women (NOW) Louise Mack, regional director of Minnesotta's UAW Bob Killeen, bank president Leo Persch's son Mike, and marching unionist Robert Anthony Carswell.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Willmar 8, The on the Internet Movie Database