Movies: Labor
- 2022
Techno Precariousness (2022)
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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 to have to run if he wants to get paid this month......
- 2015
Cleaners (2015)
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Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant cleaners outsourced at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London continue to demand ...
- 2002
Manual Labor (2002)
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A desperate, but not very bright, young man tries to find where he parked his car in a massive underground parking garage in Cannes, France when his pregnant girlfriend goes into labor....
- 1985
Yama – Attack to Attack (1985)
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This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo’s Sanya “yoseba”—a slum community dating from the 19th century where day laborers lived in terrible condi...
- 2017
Night Working (2017)
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Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on th...
- 2016
After Breaking the Silence (2016)
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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 Three Right of labors. Then. Worker's tried to record there's own struggle and launch forth to street...
- 2018
Walkout: The School Funding Rebellion (2018)
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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 they get organized and demand raises from their state legislature. From crowded classrooms to a packed ...
- 2024
Blueberry Waggle Dance (2024)
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It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives....
- 2012
Apple Stories (2012)
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Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and repair-techs in Hamburg....
- 1952
Your Social Security (1952)
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An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards....
- 2022
Sewing Sisters (2022)
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor Standards Act under the tutelage of Jeon Taeil. On September 9, 1977, they were imprisoned fighting against t...
- 2023
Sweatshop Girl (2023)
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Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her condition will get her fired. She does everything she can to keep it a secret....
- 1980
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong (1980)
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Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong....
- 2019
The Plumber (2019)
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A Widowed Plumber races against time to follow-up on the payment for his rendered service in order to save his critically ailing son....
- 1934
America Today (1934)
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One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11 minutes. Skillfully edited, the picture captures a panorama of international events centered on the labor mo...
- 2022
Footsteps (2022)
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In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories. In a fasc...
- 2017
Squid Jigging Fishing Boat (2017)
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Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to work at Falkland Islands in the South West Atlantic. The sailing takes 35-40 days and crew members name...
- 2007
The Braceros, An Oregon Experience (2007)
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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 join the military or to seek work in the cities. The solution would be a unique contract-worker agree...
- 1975
Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker (1975)
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The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form....
- 1954
The Research Director (1954)
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A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic information, and the arrangement of arguments that lie beneath the negotiations of labour unions for better ...