Labor Movies

What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored,...

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as...

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

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

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...

In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills,...

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police...

It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.

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

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

4, April, 2014. Worker's who worked in "SaengTak" are get to the struggle to require adjust of working environment for safely food, and guarantied a...

Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and...

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

A satirical look at the plight of the day laborer in the United States.

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...

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...

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

Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going...

Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture, this historical documentary,...

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