Cleaners

At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos...

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and the...

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....

A group of children living on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year-old boy, who works all day selling sunflower seeds in the city...

A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic informat...

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 j...

In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of im...

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

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow them...

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland.

Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documentary follows three immigrants that arrived in Holl...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with her camera. Sab...

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 allegoric...

A young immigrant arrives in Canada from France, and brings his Citroën 2CV with him. The iconic post-war car stands out on the streets of Vancouver,...