Labor Strike Movies

  • 2014
    Miners Shot Down

    Miners Shot Down

    Miners Shot Down

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    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...

    Miners Shot Down
  • 1990
    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story

    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story

    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story

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    OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film...

    Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story
  • 2009
    The Old School of Capitalism

    The Old School of Capitalism

    The Old School of Capitalism

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    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...

    The Old School of Capitalism
  • 1984
    Sister Stella L.

    Sister Stella L.

    Sister Stella L.

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    A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same...

    Sister Stella L.
  • 2014
    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement

    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement

    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement

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    The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm...

    The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement
  • 2017
    Vigo 1972

    Vigo 1972

    Vigo 1972

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    ‘VIGO 1972’ narrates the events which took place in Vigo in September 1972, when the firing of five Citröen auto workers resulted in...

    Vigo 1972
  • 2024
    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

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    The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back
  • 2020
    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

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    In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
  • 1971
    Smoke

    Smoke

    Smoke

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    A group of Americans who live together in an old mansion somewhere in Sweden spend their time between working at the local airplane plant and hanging...

    Smoke
  • 2021
    Conversations Between Shifts

    Conversations Between Shifts

    Conversations Between Shifts

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    A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

    Conversations Between Shifts
  • 2008
    Contract

    Contract

    Contract

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    Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

    Contract
  • 1975
    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

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    For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions.

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire
  • 1991

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

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    For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then...

  • 2021
    In Spite of Ourselves

    In Spite of Ourselves

    In Spite of Ourselves

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    An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of...

    In Spite of Ourselves
  • 2021
    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

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    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...

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
  • 2014
    The Miners' Strike and Me

    The Miners' Strike and Me

    The Miners' Strike and Me

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    Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

    The Miners' Strike and Me
  • 1978
    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

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    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors...

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
  • 1972
    Blow for Blow

    Blow for Blow

    Blow for Blow

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    The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory.

    Blow for Blow
  • 1925
    Freies Volk

    Freies Volk

    Freies Volk

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    Directed by Martin Berger.

    Freies Volk
  • 2014
    Waiting

    Waiting

    Waiting

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    Workers on strike who have not been paid for months and tourists who are forced to wait in their steamy cars in the middle of the tourist season. Krk...

    Waiting