Labor Union Movies

A Century of Struggle chronicles the hundred-year history of the NZ Seamen’s Union from its formation in 1879. Using original film and archive...

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 historical drama set in 1889, Chandler's Mill examines the plight of workers, and particularly child workers, in the New Brunswick wool industry....

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

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...

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,...

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

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

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

On May 1st, unions all over Japan celebrate May Day, the international day for workers. Workers gather together at parks and hold demonstrations and...

Blair Brown narrates this gripping account of a community's struggle to preserve its way of life. In the summer of 1892, a bitter conflict erupted at...

Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.

An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta.

In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to...

A main agenda of the prewar farmer's movement was struggle against landowners. Prokino also considered this as their prime concern. The main title...

During a 7-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory in 1973-74, volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line...

The film, which is the second part of an ongoing historical series, covers the seminal labor-related events which occurred between the late 1800's...