Labor Movies

Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.

Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie...

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going...

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

It's not her turn, but she's pregnant.

A desperate, but not very bright, young man tries to find where he parked his car in a massive underground parking garage in Cannes, France when his...

In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills,...

One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11...

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered...

Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant...

A Widowed Plumber races against time to follow-up on the payment for his rendered service in order to save his critically ailing son.

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police...

4, April, 2014. Worker's who worked in "SaengTak" are get to the struggle to require adjust of working environment for safely food, and guarantied a...

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey...

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...

In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?