Workers Rights Movies

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The...

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then th...

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, ev...

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel south...

Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.

Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer a...

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.