Worker S Rights Movies
- 1987
Matewan
Matewan7.31987HD
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...
- 1963
Tragic Jungle
Tragic Jungle6.51963HD
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.
- 2008
A Whole Life Ahead
A Whole Life Ahead6.5922008HD
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting...
- 2011
Triangle: Remembering the Fire
Triangle: Remembering the Fire62011HD
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...
- 1970
The Fields of Immokalee
The Fields of Immokalee01970HD
For decades, migrant workers have worked the fields of Immokalee, harvesting tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, oranges and other produce that is then...
- 1991
Un homme de Parole
Un homme de Parole01991HD
- 2024
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik02024HD
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?...
- 1991
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s61991HD
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...
- 1988
Radium City
Radium City5.51988HD
Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.
- 2013
Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World02013HD
A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English...
- 2009
A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress
A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress02009HD
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,...
- 1988
Love, Women & Flowers
Love, Women & Flowers01988HD
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
- 2016
Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams02016HD
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would...
- 1976
La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden
La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden01976HD
During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the...
- 2017
The Harvest
The Harvest02017HD
Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy,...
- 2013
Until Tomorrow, Comrades
Until Tomorrow, Comrades6.52013HD
Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom,...
- 2021
The Devil’s Fire
The Devil’s Fire02021HD
THE DEVIL'S FIRE is an original documentary from WSKG Public Television and filmmaker Brian Frey. Utilizing never-before-seen photographs and...
- 2001
Struggle
Struggle02001HD
This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's...
- 2020
I Am a Sex Worker
I Am a Sex Worker12020HD
Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer...
- 1961
Esta tierra es mía
Esta tierra es mía71961HD
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.