Trade Union Movies

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

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

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.

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

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

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...

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

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive...

NALGO campaign, highlighting Government cuts to public services.

Uncovers the crime, corruption, and sinister elements at the heart of Australia’s largest construction union, the CFMEU, exposing how bikies,...

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

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

Trade union leader Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of workers' organisations in the oil industry, recounts his experiences and those of his colleagues from...

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

This documentary examines the formation of labor unions in El Salvador and the systematic violations of workers’ rights that characterized the...

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

Filmed during the Salvadoran civil war, La luz que te decía documents the struggles of the country’s labor and trade union movement amid...