Labor Union Movies

  • 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
  • 2017
    Plutocracy III: Class War

    Plutocracy III: Class War

    Plutocracy III: Class War

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    The early struggles of the working class are placed under a microscope in Plutocracy III: Class War, the latest chapter in an exceptionally well...

    Plutocracy III: Class War
  • 2025
    Time to Listen

    Time to Listen

    Time to Listen

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    Time to Listen
  • 2016
    Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever

    Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever

    Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever

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    The film, which is the second part of an ongoing historical series, covers the seminal labor-related events which occurred between the late 1800's...

    Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever
  • 2017
    Mémoires d'un condamné

    Mémoires d'un condamné

    Mémoires d'un condamné

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    Mémoires d'un condamné
  • 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

    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
  • 2014
    The Miners' Strike and Me

    The Miners' Strike and Me

    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...

    The Miners' Strike and Me
  • 1978
    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

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    Combining rare archival footage with interviews recorded forty years after the event, this documentary tells the story of the Women’s Emergency...

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
  • 2009
    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

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    In the winter of 2002-'03, as the US was building its case to attack Iraq, people around the world responded with a series fo the largest peace...

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
  • 1996
    The Flickering Flame

    The Flickering Flame

    The Flickering Flame

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    Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive...

    The Flickering Flame
  • 1983
    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

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    In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to...

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining
  • 1980
    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

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    During a 7-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory in 1973-74, volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line...

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local
  • 1995
    The Uprising of '34

    The Uprising of '34

    The Uprising of '34

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    Textile workers recall with pride the long- suppressed story of the General Textile Strike of 1934 when 500,000 Southern mill laborers walked off...

    The Uprising of '34
  • 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
  • 2018
    Green Days

    Green Days

    Green Days

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    Sulan, who works in a factory in the summer of 1978, begins learning photos with other female workers from Seok-yoon, the owner of the photo studio...

    Green Days
  • 1981
    The Willmar 8

    The Willmar 8

    The Willmar 8

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    Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

    The Willmar 8
  • 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
  • 1991

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

    "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...

  • 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
    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