Labor Strike Movies

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...

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile...

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns...

"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...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of...

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.

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

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

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

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...

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?...

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

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

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

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...

There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member...

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...

Combining rare archival footage with interviews recorded forty years after the event, this documentary tells the story of the Women’s Emergency...