Movies: Labor strike
- 1975
Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire (1975)
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For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions....
- 1978
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1978)
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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...
- 1991
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)
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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 (2024)
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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....
- 2019
Labor Wars of the Northwest (2019)
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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...
- 1983
Kinleith '80 (1983)
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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....
- 1985
Ms Rhymney Valley (1985)
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Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s....
- 2020
Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade (2020)
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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...
- 1979
When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (1979)
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Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river....
- 1981
Lorraine Coeur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville (1981)
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- 1992
The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation (1992)
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Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation....
- 1986
All Out! Dancing in Dulais (1986)
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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...