Labor Strike Movies

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...

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...

The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

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...

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages?...

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...

A re-edited version of the fourth episode of Intolerance (1916); two youth are made homeless by a strike, and struggle valiantly to survive their...

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

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

Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

"The body of a white woman found floating in the East River last night was later identified as that of Katie Fagan, 650 Barren Alley. No reason was...

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

Dancing in Dulias was made by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and Lesbians Against Pit Closures during and immediate after the...

A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.

Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river.

Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is...

The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker...