Labor Movies

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

Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling...

An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards.

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

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

In a secluded village surrounded by forests and a river, an elderly beekeeper and a livestock farmer live alone, their lives shaped by tireless work...

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...

World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to...

Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite...

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...

Inside the life of former baseball star Curt Flood whose fight against MLB's 'Reserve Clause' led to reform, but destroyed his career.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...

Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.

An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him.

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...

Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going...

Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to...

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

A desperate, but not very bright, young man tries to find where he parked his car in a massive underground parking garage in Cannes, France when his...

When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local...