Workers Rights Movies
- 1987
Matewan
Matewan7.31987HD
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Keneh...
- 2008
A Whole Life Ahead
A Whole Life Ahead6.62008HD
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for singl...
- 1988
Radium City
Radium City5.51988HD
Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.
- 2011
Triangle: Remembering the Fire
Triangle: Remembering the Fire62011HD
On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story buildi...
- 2024
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik02024HD
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The...
- 1978
I've Got to Live...
I've Got to Live...01978HD
The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel south...
- 1988
Love, Women & Flowers
Love, Women & Flowers01988HD
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
- 1976
La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden
La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden01976HD
During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the U...
- 2019
Blow It to Bits
Blow It to Bits6.92019HD
A mix of Rock and Roll and Blues are the secret for successful rebellion. When I took my camera to the middle of France where the GM&S factory was thr...
- 1991
Un homme de Parole
Un homme de Parole01991HD
- 2001
Struggle
Struggle02001HD
This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's r...
- 2016
Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams02016HD
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would pro...
- 2013
Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World02013HD
A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English speaki...
- 1991
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s61991HD
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 th...
- 2016
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Farewell Ferris Wheel7.32016HD
Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the contro...
- 2005
3.87
3.877.12005HD
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.
- 2019
Conversations with Turiansky
Conversations with Turiansky02019HD
Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first portrays...
- 2009
A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress
A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress02009HD
The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, an...
- 2017
The Harvest
The Harvest02017HD
Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy, he’s been li...
- 1966
Golgotha
Golgotha7.71966HD
Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the poli...