Movies: Labor strike

  • 1990
    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story

    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story (1990)

    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story

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    OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film footage and photographs are integrated with first-hand accounts of UMWA history and of the Pittston strik...

    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story
  • 2011
    White Lions

    White Lions (2011)

    White Lions

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    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 and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and...

    White Lions
  • 1992
    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation (1992)

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

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    Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation....

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation
  • 2021
    Conversations Between Shifts

    Conversations Between Shifts (2021)

    Conversations Between Shifts

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    A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and Illinois Nurses Association union meetings, Jeanette navigates what it means to be a nurse and a human duri...

    Conversations Between Shifts
  • 2015
    Out of My Hand

    Out of My Hand (2015)

    Out of My Hand

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

    Out of My Hand
  • 2014
    The Miners' Strike and Me

    The Miners' Strike and Me (2014)

    The Miners' Strike and Me

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

    The Miners' Strike and Me
  • 1975
    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire (1975)

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

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    For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions....

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire
  • 2017
    Vigo 1972

    Vigo 1972 (2017)

    Vigo 1972

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    ‘VIGO 1972’ narrates the events which took place in Vigo in September 1972, when the firing of five Citröen auto workers resulted in the largest general strike in the history of Galicia — with over thirty thousand workers — all of this during the Fra...

    Vigo 1972
  • 2023
    O Vozerio

    O Vozerio (2023)

    O Vozerio

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    O Vozerio
  • 1956
    In the Net

    In the Net (1956)

    In the Net

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    A small coastal town, where almost everybody are into fishing. Niko and Mato are friends, both in loved with the same girl Visnja, in charge of the fishermen's strike against the owners of the fishing boats. After being caught, Mato betrays his frien...

    In the Net
  • 1986
    All Out! Dancing in Dulais

    All Out! Dancing in Dulais (1986)

    All Out! Dancing in Dulais

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    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 1984/85 minders strike. Like the forthcoming movie, Pride, it documents the interactions between les...

    All Out! Dancing in Dulais
  • 1979
    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time

    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (1979)

    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time

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

    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time
  • 1933
    Torn Boots

    Torn Boots (1933)

    Torn Boots

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    Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic syntax here. The film is chaotic in the way that Soviet films still knew how to be, and Langlois couldn’t help b...

    Torn Boots
  • 2014
    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement

    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement (2014)

    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement

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    The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that brought about the creation of t...

    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement
  • 1991

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

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    For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Sc...

  • 1972
    Blow for Blow

    Blow for Blow (1972)

    Blow for Blow

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

    Blow for Blow
  • 1925
    Freies Volk

    Freies Volk (1925)

    Freies Volk

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    Directed by Martin Berger....

    Freies Volk
  • 2009
    Dias de Greve

    Dias de Greve (2009)

    Dias de Greve

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    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 back to work when there's no money left for basic necessities....

    Dias de Greve
  • 2011
    These were the reasons

    These were the reasons (2011)

    These were the reasons

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    This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, ...

    These were the reasons
  • 1978
    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1978)

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

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    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors sit-down strike in 1936–1937 that focuses uniquely on the role of women using archival footage and interview...

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade