Labor Union Movies

The story of how a group of baristas in Buffalo, New York announce their intention to form a labor union, and how Starbucks responds with an...

History of US labor movements and their suppression. It includes sections on the American Constitution; the Civil War draft riots; Reconstruction;...

Henri Storck and Joris Ivens’ landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932...

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

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

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

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

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

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...

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

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.

Sulan, who works in a factory in the summer of 1978, begins learning photos with other female workers from Seok-yoon, the owner of the photo studio...

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...

A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort to eradicate...

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

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...

The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose...

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,...

Combining rare archival footage with interviews recorded forty years after the event, this documentary tells the story of the Women’s Emergency...

Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story dives deep into the lives beyond the court of the next generation of basketball luminaries, Jonquel Jones, Nneka...