The Plundering
By Oliver Ressler (40 min.) 2013 Austria Extreme levels of privatization can only be carried out under conditions where people are under severe pressure, as in the transformation of former Soviet...
View ArticleHigh Power
(27 min) by Pradeep Indulkar, India This powerful film is about the lives of workers and the community at the Tarapur nuclear power plant, which was built fifty years ago in a poor rural community....
View ArticleEmpire of Shame
Director – Hong Li-gyeong (92 min) 2013, Korea Empire of Shame is about the struggle of Samsung workers to defend their health and safety and get compensation from the company. The corporation refused...
View Article155 Sold
46 min; 2012, Greece, Greek in English subtitles Directed by George Panteleakis film website Greece was selected to be the first European economic experiment with a massive austerity program to...
View ArticleAll Points North
Documentary (Athens/ London 2013, 25 minutes) Producer: BlueArts Film, Mizgin Müjde Arslan, Dir: Therese Koppe Original Language: French, with English subtitles. Facebook page “It certainly will be a...
View ArticleJai Bhim Comrade: Blast From The Caste
Director – Anand Patwardhan (180 min) 2012 The recent election in India of a rightwing reactionary government and the collapse of the Congress Party again exposes the basic contradictions within India....
View ArticleThe Conditions of the Working Class In England
2012 British; 82 min. Directed by Mike Wayne and Deirdre O’Neill This film is inspired by Engels’ book written in 1844, The Condition of the Working Class in England. How much has really changed since...
View ArticleMemory of Past Struggles (Memoria Para Reincidentes)
107min. Argentina. Made by Violeta Bruck, Gabi Jaime and Javier Gabino Film website Unions and labor militancy in the 70s: Shows how Argentinian workers were organizing independently of the Peronist...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Space
112 mins; 2010 By Allan Sekula and Noël Burch Film website Investigates global maritime trade, highlighting displaced farmers and villagers in Holland, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles and...
View ArticleShadows of Liberty
93 min – Documentary – 8 August 2013 (Germany) Director: Jean-Philippe Tremblay Film website In this documentary, filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US...
View ArticlePalikari: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre (2014)
Directed and Edited by Nickos Ventouras Original Score by Manos Ventouras Associate Producer Menelaos Tzafalias Louis Tikas song by Frank Manning (Best Folk Song, 2002). website:...
View ArticleA Day’s Work (in progress)
on the abuses of the temporary staffing industry. Dave DeSario tempemployees@gmail.com
View ArticleThe Overnighters
2014 Directed by Jesse Moss Runtime: 1 hr, 30m In the tiny town of Williston, North Dakota, tens of thousands of unemployed hopefuls show up with dreams of honest work and a big paycheck under the lure...
View ArticleSecond Shift: From Crisis to Collaboration
Directed by Tom Lietz 1 hr, 37m website: http://www.secondshiftfilm.com/ When GM prepared to pull out of Lansing, a team of government, business, labor and other community leaders convinced the auto...
View ArticleBraddock America
2013 France (in English) 100m Directors: Gabriella Kessler, Jean-Loïc Portron Writer: Jean-Loïc Portron Braddock, Pennsylvania has been the home to key events that have greatly shaped American history....
View ArticleFactory Boss (“Da gong lao ban”)
2014 101m China Directed by Zhang Wei With: Yao Anlian, Tang Yan, Zhao Ju, Huang Jingyi, Gao Xueqin, Yun Mengjie; Chen Liang. (Mandarin dialogue) The title figure in “Factory Boss” is one who normally...
View ArticleEat Sleep Die
2012 Directed by Gabriela Pichler Sweden 104 mins Nermina Lukac’s electrifying performance as Raša is the heart of director Gabriela Pichler’s feature debut. A Montenegrin-born young woman living in...
View ArticleLabor-Related Films in the Library of Congress Collection
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View ArticleCesar Chavez
2014 102 min Biography Director: Diego Luna Writers: Keir Pearson (screenplay), Timothy J. Sexton Stars: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson The film follows Chávez’s efforts to organize...
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