Strike Movies

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by...

In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under...

A young Colombian woman confronts her father and best friend, who resist her taking to the streets to protest for fear of the repression and violence...

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts....

Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of...

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local...

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile...

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers'...

In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

A RECORD OF THE STRIKE AT GRUNWICK IN 1977. The story of the continuing struggle at Grunwick’s by mainly Indian workers, from July 11th, 1977...

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the...

A group of paint worker can’t take their salary from the fabricator and they go on strike.

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

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new...

The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory.

Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for...

Documentary about the CUGWU strike of 2022.