Worker S Rights Movies

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the...

The Harbour shows how two brothers end up on opposing sides of this system. One becomes the leader of an employer’s gang of thugs, while the...

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

This film noir-inspired work began as a three-act play. Here it becomes juxtaposed with a documentary style "making of" film. It is both a film and a...

On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story...

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages?...

As Yugoslavia begins to unravel, the workers of industrial complex at Rakovica struggle to survive inside a system that once promised dignity and...

A mix of Rock and Roll and Blues are the secret for successful rebellion. When I took my camera to the middle of France where the GM&S factory was...

When it became known in Neckarsulm in 1975 that the VW Group wanted to shut down its Neckarsulm plant, which would have meant unemployment for more...

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

A complex web of emotions which unfolds the grounding difference between love & predilection. An underlying, but prominent current of class...

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first...

The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour,...

Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.

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...

This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's...

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

In the 1920s, female workers in a factory paint fluorescent watch dials. Mollie, the newcomer, makes a mistake that forces her colleagues to work...

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the...