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...

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.

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 looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from...

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

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

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...

The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of...

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

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.

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.

A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.

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

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

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

Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive...

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

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

Combining rare archival footage with interviews recorded forty years after the event, this documentary tells the story of the Women’s Emergency...