Labor Movies

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...

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

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...

In this martial arts action-drama, a swordsman named Toh Hong travels home after a long battle to discover his wife and children have been brutally...

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...

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

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 blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...

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

Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C. V. Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman...

Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and...

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

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

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey...

It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.

A Widowed Plumber races against time to follow-up on the payment for his rendered service in order to save his critically ailing son.

Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a...

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

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...