Labor Union Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Textile workers recall with pride the long- suppressed story of the General Textile Strike of 1934 when 500,000 Southern mill laborers walked off...

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

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,...

How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber...

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