Migrant Worker Movies
- 1980
Angel City
Angel City5.751980HD
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
- 2024
Beyond Ratings
Beyond Ratings02024HD
Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the...
- 2003
El Contrato
El Contrato02003HD
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...
- 1960
Harvest of Shame
Harvest of Shame6.61960HD
In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range...
- 2000
The Charcoal People
The Charcoal People7.72000HD
This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...
- 2016
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Farewell Ferris Wheel7.32016HD
Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...
- 2018
Ali
Ali02018HD
A Haitian migrant struggles to bring his son to Chile from their homeland. He works as a waiter in a restaurant where he must endure the petulance of...
- 1970
I Am Golden Karen
I Am Golden Karen01970HD
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...
- 2013
Sex: My British Job
Sex: My British Job5.42013HD
Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...
- 2018
YAYA
YAYA72018HD
YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her...
- 2016
Freedom Runners
Freedom Runners02016HD
Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose...
- 2024
Nurse Unseen
Nurse Unseen02024HD
Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles...
- 1962
Wild Harvest
Wild Harvest3.71962HD
Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.
- 2014
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time02014HD
Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down...
- 1994
Money for Bread
Money for Bread5.51994HD
Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...
- 2001
In Foreign Soil
In Foreign Soil02001HD
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...
- 2017
Terrain Vague
Terrain Vague62017HD
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...
- 2020
The Lucky Woman
The Lucky Woman02020HD
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...
- 1975
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors61975HD
“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins;...
- 2003
La Vie sans Brahim
La Vie sans Brahim102003HD