worker s rights movies

Matewan (1987)
7.234 / 10

Drama, History

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

Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama, History

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?...

A Whole Life Ahead (2008)
6.6 / 10

Comedy, Drama

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for...

Tragic Jungle (1963)
6.5 / 10

Adventure, Drama

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

3.87 (2005)
7.1 / 10

Drama

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

Love, Women & Flowers (1988)
0 / 10

Documentary

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

The Harvest (2017)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

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, he’s...

Poor-Land (2004)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

Triangle: Remembering the Fire (2011)
6 / 10

Documentary

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...

Migrant Dreams (2016)
0 / 10

Documentary

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...

Until Tomorrow, Comrades (2013)
6.5 / 10

Drama, History

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,...

Golgotha (1966)
7.7 / 10

Drama, History

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the...

I've Got to Live... (1978)
0 / 10

Drama

The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel...

Esta tierra es mía (1961)
7 / 10

Drama

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Farewell Ferris Wheel (2016)
7.3 / 10

Documentary

Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...

Un homme de Parole (1991)
0 / 10

Documentary

Struggle (2001)
0 / 10

Documentary

This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's...

I Am a Sex Worker (2020)
1 / 10

Documentary

Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer...

Conversations with Turiansky (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first...

La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden (1976)
0 / 10

Documentary

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the...