Trade Union Movies

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles w...

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start fr...

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.

The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benef...

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.

An exploration of the past and future of the steel industry in America.

There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member o...

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a...

A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation.

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.