Labor Strike Movies

Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he has a big heart and when he and...

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket...

A specialist nurse is given responsibility for a baby boy with a serious heart condition in the middle of nurses’ strike. She is left balancing...

The struggle of a small group of blacksmiths trapped between keeping a long going strike with claims for better fees and the necessity of getting...

‘VIGO 1972’ narrates the events which took place in Vigo in September 1972, when the firing of five Citröen auto workers resulted in...

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working...

In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain's global empire with the discovery of America – Spain proudly presented itself to the...

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police...

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of...

Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic...

I have been pretty satisfied with my life before I got on the bus. When I do in June 2011, my whole life turns upside down. I am just a regular...

Boris Morev dreams of money and power, he’ll do everything to reach the top, including leaving his beloved Irina, to marry the daughter of the...

A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number...

The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory.

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film...

A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same...

The Renault factory in Belgium must close down. Nobody can believe it. We follow the investigations by the director who is at the heart of the action...

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.