Labor Union Movies

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank...

Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, her cars, and climbing the corporate ladder. When she is...

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

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was...

In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in...

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the...

In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

An examination of Walt Disney, the man who created "the happiest place on earth," but whose life was far from a fairy tale with employee strikes,...

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead...

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering...

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from...

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

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

After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

In Los Angeles, undocumented Mexican immigrant Maya finds work as a janitor through her sister, Rosa. However, as both work non-union, conditions are...

How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common...