Labor Union Movies

Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation.

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

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

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...

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

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

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

This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN,...

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

Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river.

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,...

FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside...

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

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against...

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...

A documentary of Janesville trying to recover from the closing of the GM automobile plant, in the midst of very divisive and historic political...

History of US labor movements and their suppression. It includes sections on the American Constitution; the Civil War draft riots; Reconstruction;...