Labor Union Movies

July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public...

It was women who closed the gates and launched the Solidarity strike when, on a Saturday in August 1980, workers, satisfied with a raise, stopped...

History of US labor movements and their suppression. It includes sections on the American Constitution; the Civil War draft riots; Reconstruction;...

Brothers on the Line explores the extraordinary journey of the Reuther brothers – Walter, Roy, and Victor – union organizers whose...

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of...

A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is...

How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition,...

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

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.

There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member...

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,...

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...

In a highly controversial move, the Justice Department used the RICO statute to take over the entire International Brotherhood of Teamsters, denying...

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...

Circumstances force the union leader of a factory to marry his own boss, a rich and arrogant lady who has ulterior motives.

A Union's Story chronicles the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from its formation in 1903 to its current status as one of the most diverse and...

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