Argentina
In Patagonia farm workers try to get better conditions of work
Australia
British farm laborers imprisoned in Australia in 1834 for forming an unauthorized union
Belgium
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)
Great Britain
Female workers walk out in protest against sexual discrimination in pay in 1968 at the Ford Dagenham car plant
Great Britain
The threat of a mine-closing looms over players in a Yorkshire brass band, whose impassioned leader wants a national title
Guyana
Abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts a company to recruit Coolies from India to make them slaves
Ireland
Early life of Irish playwright and socialist Sean O'Casey; 1910 Dublin slums; poverty and tram-strike
Italy
Labor strike in Italy at turn of the 20th century against a 14-hour work day
Italy
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
Japan
Kurosawa's film about a man seeking revenge against the Japanese company that murdered his father
Mexico
The life and paintings of Frida Kahlo (married to the great muralist Diego Rivera)
Mexico
Life of photographer Tina Modotti and her contacts with intellectual circles (including Diego Rivera)
Mexico
Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco and help from American journalist Alma Reed
Mexico
The fight for unionization of the fabric factories around the US/Mexican border
Mexico
Documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico; one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers.
Puerto Rico
Mysterious death of a supervisor during the Star Kist Caribbean Plant closure in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Spain
In Andalusia, 1888, a workers' protest against the miserable conditions at the local mines ends in a massacre
Sweden
In 1931 Swedish military opens fire on peaceful labor demonstrators in Adalen
U.S.A.
Mexican-American copper miners fight for better terms 1903-1946 which shapes the course of Arizona history
U.S.A.
Story of folk singer Woody Guthrie who discovered the misery of the poor and working class in the USA
U.S.A.
Actor Orson Wells has big trouble trying to put on a theatrical production of a musical about a steel strike
U.S.A.
In Pennsylvania an immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners
U.S.A.
Violent confrontations between company thugs and coal miners in 1920's West Virginia, USA; with Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones
U.S.A.
Disappearance of a teenage boy in a small American mining community living in the shadow of a mine accident
U.S.A.
1920, the unjust trial of two Italian-American anarchists for a crime they did not commit; documentary
U.S.A.
True story of a woman textile worker (Sally Field) being radicalized by New York City labor organizer (Ron Leibman)
U.S.A.
A Kentucky coal miner's wife spearheads a 1970s union strike to close the mine and force contract negotiations
U.S.A.
1950 zinc mine workers go on strike in Silver City, New Mexico; black listed in Hollywood for making the film were the director, actor Will Geer, producer Paul Jarrico & screenwriter Michael Wilson
U.S.A.
Interesting theory that managers and their hired thugs used so much violence that the American labor movement had to turn to organized crime to survive and thereby was corrupted
U.S.A.
Early 20th century popular take-over of government in USA northern plains
U.S.A.
Margaret finds love but what are her odds for happiness when she lives in a town where half the men die down the coalpit
U.S.A.
Biography of the Hispanic civil-rights activist and labor organizer of seasonal workers
Others
A child sent away as a laborer, now an adult, tells his story to his now dying father