Trade Union Movies

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed...

An exploration of the past and future of the steel industry in America.

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors...

The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of...

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his...

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

Short documentary made under lockdown that looks at the crisis for renters during the pandemic.

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles...

Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member...

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

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as...

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from...