Movies: Labor

  • 1999
    Berlino

    Berlino (1999)

    Berlino

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    What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored, phone home. They try to survive. Berlino is a moving documentary about displacement....

    Berlino
  • 2016
    After Breaking the Silence

    After Breaking the Silence (2016)

    After Breaking the Silence

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    4, April, 2014. Worker's who worked in "SaengTak" are get to the struggle to require adjust of working environment for safely food, and guarantied a Three Right of labors. Then. Worker's tried to record there's own struggle and launch forth to street...

    After Breaking the Silence
  • 2025
    Pani od polskiego

    Pani od polskiego (2025)

    Pani od polskiego

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    Strong and independent Eliza works as the Polish teacher in a village school and begins an affair with local delinquent Stach. They have a child out of wedlock. When Stach is sent on forced labourer in Germany, Eliza and her child set off on an epic ...

    Pani od polskiego
  • 1985
    Yama – Attack to Attack

    Yama – Attack to Attack (1985)

    Yama – Attack to Attack

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    This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo’s Sanya “yoseba”—a slum community dating from the 19th century where day laborers lived in terrible condi...

    Yama – Attack to Attack
  • 2022
    Homebound

    Homebound (2022)

    Homebound

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    Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks involved in working abroad and the traps she has fallen into....

    Homebound
  • 2012
    Apple Stories

    Apple Stories (2012)

    Apple Stories

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    Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and repair-techs in Hamburg....

    Apple Stories
  • 2011
    The Harvest (La Cosecha)

    The Harvest (La Cosecha) (2011)

    The Harvest (La Cosecha)

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    The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America....

    The Harvest (La Cosecha)
  • 2021
    Jobs for All!

    Jobs for All! (2021)

    Jobs for All!

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    A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer confronts how “work works.” Culled entirely from archival footage, the film unfolds in the filmmakers’ tradem...

    Jobs for All!
  • 2003
    The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork

    The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork (2003)

    The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork

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    A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has burned out and who holds up her own despair – and her attempts to rebuild her life – as a mirror to ...

    The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork
  • 1981
    Man Versus Man

    Man Versus Man (1981)

    Man Versus Man

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    Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State Government in 1981. This would rob over 100,000 people of a living. The film analyzes the critical situat...

    Man Versus Man
  • 2024
    Honey and Milk

    Honey and Milk (2024)

    Honey and Milk

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    In a secluded village surrounded by forests and a river, an elderly beekeeper and a livestock farmer live alone, their lives shaped by tireless work and quiet harmony. Through one day in their hidden world, this documentary reveals the beauty and mys...

    Honey and Milk
  • 2014
    Miners Shot Down

    Miners Shot Down (2014)

    Miners Shot Down

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    In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of...

    Miners Shot Down
  • 2002
    An Injury to One

    An Injury to One (2002)

    An Injury to One

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    An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana....

    An Injury to One
  • 2024
    Blueberry Waggle Dance

    Blueberry Waggle Dance (2024)

    Blueberry Waggle Dance

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    It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives....

    Blueberry Waggle Dance
  • 2023
    Sweatshop Girl

    Sweatshop Girl (2023)

    Sweatshop Girl

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    Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her condition will get her fired. She does everything she can to keep it a secret....

    Sweatshop Girl
  • 2007
    The Job

    The Job (2007)

    The Job

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    A satirical look at the plight of the day laborer in the United States....

    The Job
  • 1952
    Your Social Security

    Your Social Security (1952)

    Your Social Security

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    An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards....

    Your Social Security
  • 1975
    Open files

    Open files (1975)

    Open files

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    A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes -...

    Open files
  • 2000
    My Father

    My Father (2000)

    My Father

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    This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot themselves and leave their families to get work?" as he sets out to search for his own father. He wonde...

    My Father
  • 1980
    Yan Ki Made in Hongkong

    Yan Ki Made in Hongkong (1980)

    Yan Ki Made in Hongkong

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    Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong....

    Yan Ki Made in Hongkong