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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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 trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...