Labor Movies

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

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and...

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

World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to...

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

Inside the life of former baseball star Curt Flood whose fight against MLB's 'Reserve Clause' led to reform, but destroyed his career.

Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite...

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

Strong and independent Eliza works as the Polish teacher in a village school and begins an affair with local delinquent Stach. They have a child out...

In a secluded village surrounded by forests and a river, an elderly beekeeper and a livestock farmer live alone, their lives shaped by tireless work...

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...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...

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...

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...

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

Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...

Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

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

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