Migrant Worker Movies

  • 2016
    Migrant Dreams

    Migrant Dreams

    Migrant Dreams

    02016HD

    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...

    Migrant Dreams
  • 2017
    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    62017HD

    A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his...

    Terrain Vague
  • 2016
    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    7.32016HD

    Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...

    Farewell Ferris Wheel
  • 2015
    Nia's Door

    Nia's Door

    Nia's Door

    02015HD

    Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers,...

    Nia's Door
  • 1994
    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    5.51994HD

    Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...

    Money for Bread
  • 2017
    Between Pudukkottai & Singapore

    Between Pudukkottai & Singapore

    Between Pudukkottai & Singapore

    02017HD

    This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while...

    Between Pudukkottai & Singapore
  • 1960
    Harvest of Shame

    Harvest of Shame

    Harvest of Shame

    6.61960HD

    In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range...

    Harvest of Shame
  • 2021
    Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

    02021HD

    Migranta tells the stories of Vicky, Betty and Lety, (three mothers who have come to Canada from Mexico as part of the federal government’s...

    Migrant Mother
  • 2008
    Immokalee U.S.A.

    Immokalee U.S.A.

    Immokalee U.S.A.

    02008HD

    Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food...

    Immokalee U.S.A.
  • 2014
    Les messagers

    Les messagers

    Les messagers

    5.92014HD

    From the Sahara to Mellila, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, unlike their companions - all migrants who were literally and...

    Les messagers
  • 2023
    A Tomato Tragedy

    A Tomato Tragedy

    A Tomato Tragedy

    02023HD

    In southern Italy, stateless migrants pick the tomatoes the rest of the world will taste. But what about these workers’ European dreams? Will...

    A Tomato Tragedy
  • 2023
    Nous les ouvriers

    Nous les ouvriers

    Nous les ouvriers

    72023HD

    Nous les ouvriers
  • 1985
    De tiende penning

    De tiende penning

    De tiende penning

    01985HD

    A documentary about migrants in the Netherlands, living, working, and dreaming of home.

    De tiende penning
  • 2013
    Sex: My British Job

    Sex: My British Job

    Sex: My British Job

    5.22013HD

    Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...

    Sex: My British Job
  • 2001
    In Foreign Soil

    In Foreign Soil

    In Foreign Soil

    02001HD

    In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return...

    In Foreign Soil
  • 1970
    I Am Golden Karen

    I Am Golden Karen

    I Am Golden Karen

    01970HD

    I AM GOLDEN KAREN is a coming-of-age story of Thaawa, a Karen refugee in search of his identity as a migrant in Thailand. In between puberty and...

    I Am Golden Karen
  • 2018
    The Man Who Died Once

    The Man Who Died Once

    The Man Who Died Once

    02018HD

    Tragic circumstances bring together the wife and the mother of two migrant workers - one from the east, the other from west Nepal.

    The Man Who Died Once
  • 2011
    Bahadur: The Accidental Brave

    Bahadur: The Accidental Brave

    Bahadur: The Accidental Brave

    02011HD

    Far West Nepal, where maximum labour migration to Bombay happens, is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro epidemic. This documentary is an in...

    Bahadur: The Accidental Brave
  • 2024
    Iin Marlina

    Iin Marlina

    Iin Marlina

    02024HD

    Iin Marlina
  • 1971
    Die industrielle Reservearmee

    Die industrielle Reservearmee

    Die industrielle Reservearmee

    01971HD

    Interviews and images from the work and leisure time of guest workers in the Federal Republic are combined into a militant appeal for solidarity.

    Die industrielle Reservearmee