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Hoopla
87
8.1
/107533/
76
/1454/
78
/1065/
4.2
/58154/
100
/49/
88
/1136/
96
/16/
cc age 12+

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/7287/
82
/236/
75
/110/
4.3
/22626/
100
/22/
92
/186/
80
/5/
cc age 15+

Harlan County U.S.A. (1977)
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
poster
81
77
7.8
/14637/
75
/243/
74
/245/
4.0
/11473/
94
/18/
88
/138/

Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
poster
76
7.2
/2956/
66
/45/
68
/83/
3.6
/2570/
97
/32/
81
/36/
80
/25/

Human Resources (1999)
"Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
7.1
/16534/
71
/408/
67
/318/
3.4
/8213/
80
/129/
75
/705/
65
/31/
cc age 16+

Made in Dagenham (2010)
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
63
8.0
/3706/
75
/73/
75
/123/
4.1
/5532/
90
/10/
89
/18/

The Organizer (1963)
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
poster
Kanopy
75
54
7.3
/1966/
70
/22/
66
/38/
3.7
/1833/
86
/7/
82
/29/

The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
poster
53
6.3
/8325/
66
/172/
64
/134/
3.2
/2834/
27
/22/
49
/65/
46
/11/

The River (1984)
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
poster
Kanopy
67
52
6.9
/3219/
66
/81/
65
/94/
3.5
/2797/

Behind the Screen (1916)
During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.
poster
74
48
7.6
/1617/
74
/32/
77
/69/
3.8
/1267/
69
/1009/

The Railroad Man (1956)
Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
poster
73
46
7.3
/2643/
75
/20/
73
/26/
3.4
/1074/
80
/377/

The Valley of Decision (1945)
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
39
7.3
/901/
73
/36/
57
/20/
3.8
/1545/
100
/6/
78
/4/

Alambrista! (1977)
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
poster
64
31
6.4
/1158/
63
/16/
61
/24/
3.3
/695/
83
/6/
50
/5/

Black Fury (1935)
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
poster
73
21
7.1
/609/
54
/10/
68
/11/
3.8
/1417/
100
/3/

This Is My Country (1984)
A laborer gets money for his wife's pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.
poster
58
19
6.3
/405/
56
/12/
62
/13/
3.4
/412/
45
/85/

Native Land (1942)
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
poster
57
?
5.9
/81/
56
/6/
50
/4/
3.3
/202/

The Strike (1904)
During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks for mercy, knowing that his father was wrong. Because of that the wife is freed.
poster
?
5.5
/25/

När ängarna blommar (1946)
The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
poster
?
6.0
/75/

Our Leading Citizen (1939)
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
poster
60
?
6.8
/262/
41
/6/
60
/8/
3.5
/206/

If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.
poster
?
6.7
/76/
10
/1/
53
/5/

Strikebound (1984)
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."
poster
67
?
6.6
/373/
62
/18/
75
/2/

Eila (2003)
A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
poster
58
?
6.7
/332/
55
/5/
42
/7/
3.4
/267/

Deserter (1933)
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.
poster
?

West Is West (1920)
Dick Rainboldt (Carey) signs up to work at a gold mine without realizing that he's being hired as a strikebreaker. He takes the job primarily because of a pretty girl who lives in the town. The superintendent and manager of the mine convince Rainboldt to blow up the mine and make it appear like the strikers did it. But Rainboldt turns the tables on the plotters and reveals their scheme. The mine owner rewards him with a big assignment and the girl promises to marry him.


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