Workers’ Struggle

In Patagonia farm workers try to get better conditions of work

British farm laborers imprisoned in Australia in 1834 for forming an unauthorized union

Worker struggle in the Gippsland coalfields during 1930’s Australia

Australians battle the government during the 1854 miners' revolt

Father Adolf Daens works in Belgium of the 1890s & champions the workers' cause

Made for TV movie about 1956 tragedy in the mine at Marcinelle in Belgium where 300 miners died (136 of the dead miners were Italians)

Coal miners strike for better pay and conditions in 1897 Lota, Chile

Labor troubles in Finland

Drama set in France around the abuse of child labor

French film about a perilous workers' strike in the French mines

Labor struggle in Germany and Russia

Abuse of cotton workers in England

Female workers walk out in protest against sexual discrimination in pay in 1968 at the Ford Dagenham car plant

The threat of a mine-closing looms over players in a Yorkshire brass band, whose impassioned leader wants a national title

Abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts a company to recruit Coolies from India to make them slaves

Early life of Irish playwright and socialist Sean O'Casey; 1910 Dublin slums; poverty and tram-strike

Labor strike in Italy at turn of the 20th century against a 14-hour work day

A poor Sicilian tries to lessen the exploitation of the fishermen in his village by the fish merchants and finds all the cards are stacked against him

Abuse of women workers in silk industry in Japan in early 1900s

Follow up to Ah! Nomugi toge

Kurosawa's film about a man seeking revenge against the Japanese company that murdered his father

The life and paintings of Frida Kahlo (married to the great muralist Diego Rivera)

Two left-wing Mexican artists interact with the Rockefellers

Life of photographer Tina Modotti and her contacts with intellectual circles (including Diego Rivera)

Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco and help from American journalist Alma Reed

The fight for unionization of the fabric factories around the US/Mexican border