Movies: Labor strike
- 1990
Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story (1990)
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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...
- 2011
White Lions (2011)
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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...
- 1992
The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation (1992)
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Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation....
- 2021
Conversations Between Shifts (2021)
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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...
- 2015
Out of My Hand (2015)
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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....
- 2014
The Miners' Strike and Me (2014)
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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....
- 1975
Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire (1975)
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For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions....
- 2017
Vigo 1972 (2017)
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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...
- 2023
O Vozerio (2023)
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- 1956
In the Net (1956)
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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...
- 1986
All Out! Dancing in Dulais (1986)
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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...
- 1979
When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (1979)
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Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river....
- 1933
Torn Boots (1933)
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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...
- 2014
The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement (2014)
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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...
- 1991
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)
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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 (1972)
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The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory....
- 1925
Freies Volk (1925)
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Directed by Martin Berger....
- 2009
Dias de Greve (2009)
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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....
- 2011
These were the reasons (2011)
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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, ...
- 1978
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1978)
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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...