Labor Movies

Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to...

Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her...

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as...

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 this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the...

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

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards.

This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...

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

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

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

It's not her turn, but she's pregnant.

Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture, this historical documentary,...

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...

One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11...

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...

A satirical look at the plight of the day laborer in the United States.