Labor Union Movies

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

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

Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.

A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort eradicate coca...

Produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the film used actors to recreate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and compare working...

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

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

An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta.

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of...

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

A documentary film showcasing the ascension of the state of Virginia from its rank of 51st worst state for labor unions, to 23rd, in a matter of just...

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

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

A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic...

Traces the story of the 25-year struggle of Fieldcrest-Cannon textile workers to form a union in the face of modernization and globalization.

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

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,...