U. S. Senator Bob Corker meets with members of the Chattanooga Time Free Press editorial board Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn.Where to see Live Another Day
The documentary is currently showing at the Carmike East Ridge 18 and at the Carmike Northgate 14.
A documentary on some of Detroit’s darkest days debuted at theaters in Chattanooga and other select markets on Friday, retelling the dire story of the near collapse and unprecedented government rescue of General Motors and Chrysler during America’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
The events may now be nearly a decade old and based in Detroit, Washington D.C., and Wall Street. But they offer an insider’s look at how the taxpayers’ bailout of the auto industry was put together and why U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., became so soured on the United Auto Workers union and its ongoing battle to organize Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga.
The film “Live Another Day,” is based on the book “Crash Course” authored by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Ingrassia, who praises the UAW for helping build America’s middle class in the 1950s and ’60s. But he suggests the union contracts proved deadly for the Big Three when the Great Recession hit.
The film documentary was written and produced, in part, by former Turner Broadcasting and Weather Channel CEO Bill Burke, who is the brother of former Chattanooga Lookouts owner Frank Burke.