Labor Movies

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered...

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

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills,...

Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to...

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

It's not her turn, but she's pregnant.

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey...

Strong and independent Eliza works as the Polish teacher in a village school and begins an affair with local delinquent Stach. They have a child out...

Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a...

Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture, this historical documentary,...

A satirical look at the plight of the day laborer in the United States.

A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer...

On 9 July 2021, the 422 workers at the GKN factory in Campi Bisenzio near Florence received their dismissal, by email. They immediately met in front...

What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored,...

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the...

Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and...

Ji-eun, a part-timer at a convenience store, will be able to receive her much-awaited severance pay tomorrow.

It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.