Labor Movies

In Venezuelan Guayana, large gold reserves lie beneath “moriche” palms, attracting multitudes of miners to the territory. A fictional...

How Finnish immigrants came into contact — and conflict — with industrial America. Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how...

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

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.

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

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

A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open...

An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote Texan/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two...

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...

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...

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

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

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

In the 1920s, Western Electric Company ordered a series of studies to be conducted at their plant in Cicero, Illinois. At first they wanted to see...

In response to the Detroit riots of 1967, where racial tensions in the city reached a breaking point, the city decided that the way to resolve these...

Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s were proud men and well-respected by their...

A Berlin street corner is slowly changing: an aging supermarket turns into a construction site and finally a new building. People restock shelves,...

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police...

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

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