Labor Union Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Solidarity According To Women

    Solidarity According To Women

    Solidarity According To Women

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    It was women who closed the gates and launched the Solidarity strike when, on a Saturday in August 1980, workers, satisfied with a raise, stopped...

    Solidarity According To Women
  • 2015
    The Factory

    The Factory

    The Factory

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    This documentary film traces the struggle of Indian auto workers of the Maruti Suzuki factory in Manesar, near Delhi, in forming a union....

    The Factory
  • 2024
    Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story

    Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story

    Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story

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    Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story dives deep into the lives beyond the court of the next generation of basketball luminaries, Jonquel Jones, Nneka...

    Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story
  • 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
  • 2014
    Miners Shot Down

    Miners Shot Down

    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...

    Miners Shot Down
  • 2017
    Mémoires d'un condamné

    Mémoires d'un condamné

    Mémoires d'un condamné

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    Mémoires d'un condamné
  • 2010
    The War You and I

    The War You and I

    The War You and I

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    With the unexpected dismissal of 2045 workers, the strike by Ssangyong employees has received the most public support and attention since the IMF. It...

    The War You and I
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1981
    Lorraine Cœur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville

    Lorraine Cœur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville

    Lorraine Cœur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville

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    Lorraine Cœur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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...

  • 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
  • 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