Movies and TvShows featuring "labor-activist" theme.

In the coal mining town of Matewan, West Virginia, in the 1920s, tensions rise when a labor organizer arrives to support the striking miners against the oppressive coal company. As the conflict escalates, the town becomes a battleground for racial tensions, class struggle, and the fight for workers' rights.

Bread and Roses (2000) follows the story of a group of janitors, mostly immigrants, who work in a Los Angeles office building. Inspired by the efforts of labor organizer Maya, they organize themselves to fight for better working conditions, higher wages, and access to healthcare. The film highlights the challenges they face, including the opposition from the corporation and the coercion tactics used against them. It is based on a true story and showcases the courage and determination of the characters in their pursuit of justice.

Tricky Old Dogs follows the story of a labor activist who discovers his past coming back to haunt him when his old enemy reappears. Set in post-World War II France, the movie explores themes of class differences, labor strikes, and the employer-employee relationship. With a touch of comedy and drama, this film takes the audience on a journey filled with senility, plowing a field, rugby, and a pregnant woman. It delves into the complexities of Swiss bank accounts, feuding neighbors, and the bond between a grandfather and granddaughter. This reminiscence of the past is based on the Franco-Belgian comic book and showcases the struggles of the working class in Tuscany, Italy.

Which Way Is Up? is a comedy film set in 1970s California, following the story of a labor leader and his experiences with labor struggles, adultery, and domestic abuse. The film also explores themes of racial discrimination and personal growth.

Harlan County War is a movie set in the 1970s in Harlan County, Kentucky, where a group of miners go on a sit-down strike to fight for better working conditions. The movie explores the social and family dynamics within the mining community, the dangers of coal mining, and the violent clashes between the mining company and the workers. It also sheds light on the poverty and struggles faced by the miners and the significance of labor organizing during that time.

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact Pullman porters were often called "George" by white passengers, which was considered a racial slur.

Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.

Nett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).

Banana Land: Blood, Bullets & Poison is a documentary that exposes the devastating effects of the global banana industry. It delves into the issues of pesticide use, monoculture, labor exploitation, and the link between banana plantations and sterility and birth defects.

In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to seek justice and equality in an industry rife with exploitation.

A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the traditionally all-male main assembly line.

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.

A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.

A documentary about the statesman Einar Gerhardsen and his relation to the labour movement, how the Labour Party under his rule became the overall leading party.

Made in L.A. is a powerful documentary that follows the inspiring journey of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops. Through their experiences, the film explores issues of labor conditions, immigration, self-realization, and empowerment.

When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.

From the real life story of Marsinah, an Indonesian activist that was kidnapped & found dead on May 1993 after a demonstration act.

Héctor Rodríguez (1918-1996) was one of the outstanding figures in the people's movement in Uruguay. He was a textile worker and also a member of parliament for the Communist Party, and he was expelled from their ranks in the 1950s. He was a journalist, a militant activist and a political prisoner, and a key force in trade union unity and left wing politics in Uruguay. His life was bound up with some of the most important events in the history of this country after 1930. As well as Héctor's own testimony we have the voices of textile workers, intellectuals, union members and politicians, in a rich mixture of archive film and photographs.

A documentary about the Waterside Workers' Federation union in Australia.