Movies: Worker s rights

  • 2008
    A Whole Life Ahead

    A Whole Life Ahead (2008)

    A Whole Life Ahead

    6.52008HD

    25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and expl...

    A Whole Life Ahead
  • 1924
    The Last Laugh

    The Last Laugh (1924)

    The Last Laugh

    7.81924HD

    An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society....

    The Last Laugh
  • 1987
    Matewan

    Matewan (1987)

    Matewan

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    Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the...

    Matewan
  • 2017
    The Harvest

    The Harvest (2017)

    The Harvest

    02017HD

    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 been living with the rest of the Sikh community in Latina province. Hardeep is also Indian, but her stress ...

    The Harvest
  • 1925
    Strike

    Strike (1925)

    Strike

    7.31925HD

    Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression....

    Strike
  • 2023
    Thuramukham

    Thuramukham (2023)

    Thuramukham

    5.62023HD

    The Harbour shows how two brothers end up on opposing sides of this system. One becomes the leader of an employer’s gang of thugs, while the other becomes an activist. All the while, the women in their family go hungry and the community is ravaged by...

    Thuramukham
  • 2023
    Richelieu

    Richelieu (2023)

    Richelieu

    7.52023HD

    A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend the...

    Richelieu
  • 2011
    Triangle: Remembering the Fire

    Triangle: Remembering the Fire (2011)

    Triangle: Remembering the Fire

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    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 building, 146 workers - mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls - were burned alive or forced to ju...

    Triangle: Remembering the Fire
  • 1978
    I've Got to Live...

    I've Got to Live... (1978)

    I've Got to Live...

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    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 south. His wife Karin and the children will stay in the village until further notice. Nils starts working...

    I've Got to Live...
  • 1979
    Broken Flag

    Broken Flag (1979)

    Broken Flag

    6.41979HD

    When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie tha...

    Broken Flag
  • 2024
    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings (2024)

    Beyond Ratings

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    Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the tiresome reality of gig-workers' identities against the absent bosses, masked behind their apps. Filmed...

    Beyond Ratings
  • 2016
    Migrant Dreams

    Migrant Dreams (2016)

    Migrant Dreams

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    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 provide the opportunity and income for a better life. They didn't expect that fixers and false promises...

    Migrant Dreams
  • 2013
    Until Tomorrow, Comrades

    Until Tomorrow, Comrades (2013)

    Until Tomorrow, Comrades

    6.52013HD

    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, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives....

    Until Tomorrow, Comrades
  • 1963
    Tragic Jungle

    Tragic Jungle (1963)

    Tragic Jungle

    6.51963HD

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

    Tragic Jungle
  • 2025
    Uyire (ഉയിരേ)

    Uyire (ഉയിരേ) (2025)

    Uyire (ഉയിരേ)

    02025HD

    A complex web of emotions which unfolds the grounding difference between love & predilection. An underlying, but prominent current of class difference between Indrajit & Zoya, brings clarity to the waters that they're in....

    Uyire (ഉയിരേ)
  • 1966
    Golgotha

    Golgotha (1966)

    Golgotha

    7.71966HD

    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 police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they'...

    Golgotha
  • 2019
    Blow It to Bits

    Blow It to Bits (2019)

    Blow It to Bits

    6.92019HD

    A mix of Rock and Roll and Blues are the secret for successful rebellion. When I took my camera to the middle of France where the GM&S factory was threatened by a permanent shut down, I felt like something extraordinary was about to take place. And i...

    Blow It to Bits
  • 1988
    Radium City

    Radium City (1988)

    Radium City

    5.51988HD

    Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint....

    Radium City
  • 2016
    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel (2016)

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    7.32016HD

    Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa....

    Farewell Ferris Wheel
  • 2013
    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World (2013)

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

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    A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change....

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World