Labor Movies

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

What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored,...

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...

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

How Finnish immigrants came into contact — and conflict — with industrial America. Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how...

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...

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

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.