Trade Union Movies

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles...

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from...

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed...

A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.

A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his...

Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of...

Filmed during the Salvadoran civil war, La luz que te decía documents the struggles of the country’s labor and trade union movement amid...

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.

The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of...

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.

Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

This documentary examines the formation of labor unions in El Salvador and the systematic violations of workers’ rights that characterized the...

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as...