Labor Union Movies

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

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...

In the winter of 2002-'03, as the US was building its case to attack Iraq, people around the world responded with a series fo the largest peace...

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

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN,...

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

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Eugene Debs & the American Movement is an educational video that documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched...

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...

FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside...

Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.