Movies: Labor strike

  • 1975
    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire (1975)

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

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    For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions....

    Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire
  • 1978
    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1978)

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

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    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors sit-down strike in 1936–1937 that focuses uniquely on the role of women using archival footage and interview...

    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
  • 1991

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

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    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 the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Sc...

  • 2024
    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back (2024)

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back

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    The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike....

    Strike! The Village That Fought Back
  • 2019
    Labor Wars of the Northwest

    Labor Wars of the Northwest (2019)

    Labor Wars of the Northwest

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    Discontent, radicalism, and violence permeated the U.S. Northwest in the early decades of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands of workers migrated for jobs in logging, mining, and fishing - where they found poverty-level wages, crushing hours, an...

    Labor Wars of the Northwest
  • 1983
    Kinleith '80

    Kinleith '80 (1983)

    Kinleith '80

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    Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980....

    Kinleith '80
  • 1985
    Ms Rhymney Valley

    Ms Rhymney Valley (1985)

    Ms Rhymney Valley

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    Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s....

    Ms Rhymney Valley
  • 2020
    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade (2020)

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

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    In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last paychecks bounced. The miners retaliated by blocking a train full of coal, camping out on the coal tracks fo...

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
  • 1979
    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time

    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (1979)

    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time

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    Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river....

    When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time
  • 1981
    Lorraine Coeur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville

    Lorraine Coeur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville (1981)

    Lorraine Coeur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville

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    Lorraine Coeur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville
  • 1992
    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation (1992)

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

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    Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation....

    The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation
  • 1986
    All Out! Dancing in Dulais

    All Out! Dancing in Dulais (1986)

    All Out! Dancing in Dulais

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    Dancing in Dulias was made by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and Lesbians Against Pit Closures during and immediate after the 1984/85 minders strike. Like the forthcoming movie, Pride, it documents the interactions between les...

    All Out! Dancing in Dulais