Labor Movies

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...

How Finnish immigrants came into contact — and conflict — with industrial America. Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how...

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

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

An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him.

In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills,...

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

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered...

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...

This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the...

A Widowed Plumber races against time to follow-up on the payment for his rendered service in order to save his critically ailing son.

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as...

World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to...

In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

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,...

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