Labor Movies

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket...

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

An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote Texan/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two...

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

A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...

Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling...

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...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Ching-Chun, Nguyễn and Mei are both international students from Vietnam to Taiwan; however the reality is so different from what was...

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...

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie...

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C. V. Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman...

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

France: 2020s. Piotr, a young Polish immigrant stuck in a string of odd jobs, crosses paths with Stefano, a burly mover. Little did Piotr know, this...

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

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO who evolves from a profits-over-people,...

A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer...

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...

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