Movies: Labor strike

  • 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
  • 2009
    The Old School of Capitalism

    The Old School of Capitalism (2009)

    The Old School of Capitalism

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    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 of strikes in Belgrade during the late 2000s and these introduce us to several characters playing the...

    The Old School of Capitalism
  • 2023
    O Vozerio

    O Vozerio (2023)

    O Vozerio

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    O Vozerio
  • 1971
    Smoke

    Smoke (1971)

    Smoke

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    A group of Americans who live together in an old mansion somewhere in Sweden spend their time between working at the local airplane plant and hanging out with their revolutionary friends. Smoke has something going with his boss's daughter, but when t...

    Smoke
  • 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)

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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
  • 2008
    Contract

    Contract (2008)

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    Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007....

    Contract
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    These were the reasons

    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, ...

    These were the reasons
  • 2021
    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain (2021)

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

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    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 them in tears, cheered and clapped as the men of Grimethorpe Colliery marched back to work accompanie...

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
  • 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...

  • 2024
    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back (2024)

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

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    The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike....

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back
  • 2020
    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade (2020)

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

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    In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last paychecks bounced. The miners retaliated by blocking a train full of coal, camping out on the coal tracks fo...

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2021
    In Spite of Ourselves

    In Spite of Ourselves (2021)

    In Spite of Ourselves

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    An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of workers who demand what is fair for everyone....

    In Spite of Ourselves
  • 2015
    Out of My Hand

    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....

    Out of My Hand
  • 1983
    Kinleith '80

    Kinleith '80 (1983)

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    Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980....

    Kinleith '80