Labor Union Movies

  • 1993
    The River Ran Red

    The River Ran Red

    The River Ran Red

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    Blair Brown narrates this gripping account of a community's struggle to preserve its way of life. In the summer of 1892, a bitter conflict erupted at...

    The River Ran Red
  • 1981
    Wildcat: The Struggle for Democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers' Union

    Wildcat: The Struggle for Democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers' Union

    Wildcat: The Struggle for Democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers' Union

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    Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber...

    Wildcat: The Struggle for Democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers' Union
  • 2002
    An Injury to One

    An Injury to One

    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
  • 1938
    The Shanghai Drama

    The Shanghai Drama

    The Shanghai Drama

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    A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

    The Shanghai Drama
  • 1954
    The Research Director

    The Research Director

    The Research Director

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    A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic...

    The Research Director
  • 1992
    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

    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
  • 1972
    The Union

    The Union

    The Union

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    A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained...

    The Union
  • 2012
    A Struggle to Remember

    A Struggle to Remember

    A Struggle to Remember

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    The video documentary "A Struggle to Remember: Fighting for Our Families" puts faces and narratives to the story of the struggle for family leave in...

    A Struggle to Remember
  • 2024
    Strike! The Women Who Fought Back

    Strike! The Women Who Fought Back

    Strike! The Women Who Fought Back

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    In their own words, this is the story of six women from the South Wales valleys and how they helped sustain the bitter year-long miners' strike,...

    Strike! The Women Who Fought Back
  • 2021
    Strike

    Strike

    Strike

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    In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.

    Strike
  • 2018
    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

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    Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today
  • 1995
    Justice in the Coalfields

    Justice in the Coalfields

    Justice in the Coalfields

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    This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

    Justice in the Coalfields
  • 1992
    Mannan

    Mannan

    Mannan

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    Circumstances force the union leader of a factory to marry his own boss, a rich and arrogant lady who has ulterior motives.

    Mannan
  • 2021
    Conversations Between Shifts

    Conversations Between Shifts

    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...

    Conversations Between Shifts
  • 1979
    For Twenty Cents A Day

    For Twenty Cents A Day

    For Twenty Cents A Day

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    A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

    For Twenty Cents A Day
  • 2019
    A March to Remember

    A March to Remember

    A March to Remember

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    Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, March 3, 1976. After several months of protests demanding decent working conditions, a general strike is called....

    A March to Remember
  • 2021
    In Spite of Ourselves

    In Spite of Ourselves

    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...

    In Spite of Ourselves
  • 1977
    General Report

    General Report

    General Report

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    How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition,...

    General Report
  • 1990
    Chandler's Mill

    Chandler's Mill

    Chandler's Mill

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    A historical drama set in 1889, Chandler's Mill examines the plight of workers, and particularly child workers, in the New Brunswick wool industry....

    Chandler's Mill
  • 1977
    Eugene Debs and the American Movement

    Eugene Debs and the American Movement

    Eugene Debs and the American Movement

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    Eugene Debs & the American Movement is an educational video that documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched...

    Eugene Debs and the American Movement