“North Country” is a film that focuses on a true story about a woman fighting for the equality rights of all women in the workplace. A black bear that may have learned to prey on humans killed a woman and injured her husband at a provincial park in northern Ontario. This is one of a bunch of towns on "the Range", Iron Range, about an hour or so from Duluth. With Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand, Thomas Curtis. This is the true story behind the movie "North Country", about the first class action sexual harassment suit filed for women employees at Eveleth Mines, in Virginia, Minnesota. She is the daughter of legendary actor and WWII Naval Officer Henry Fonda. Save this story for later. Their story became the basis for the 2005 movie North Country. Jane Fonda is a star of stage and screen whose career began in 1960. The facts are that while in North Vietnam, Fonda met with only a single group of seven U.S POWs: all seven of those POWs agreed to meet with her, no POWs were tortured for declining to … In April 2006, the Hibbing, Minnesota, chapter of the American Association of University Women held a ceremony honoring the women workers at Eveleth Mines who filed the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit. Black bear kills woman camper north of Chapleau, Ont. Suspenseful and heartwarming, the movie follows a mother, Josey Aimes, as she is sexually harassed in her place of work and fights against all odds to ensure the safety of women everywhere in the workplace. ... a midwife in New York’s North Country, pulled into the gravel driveway of a small dairy farm, scattering some chickens. North Country (2005) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Directed by Niki Caro. Jane, now … "Girl from the North Country" (occasionally known as "Girl of the North Country") is a song written by Bob Dylan. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. It is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it home. North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is about the sexual harassment class action lawsuit that the women of EVTAC mines in Minnesota filed in … North Country: The Making of Minnesota unlocks the complex origins of the state—origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. It was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City in April 1963, and released the following month as the second track on Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.