Movies and TvShows featuring "labor-violence" theme.

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 1930s Egypt, a town council controlled by a despotic rule deprives the working-class peasants of their water resources. A brave schoolteacher leads a petition to fight against the corrupt mayor and land owner to secure water rights and put an end to the oppressive regime.

A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.

Black Fury is a crime drama set in Pennsylvania, where a coal miner named Joe witnesses the struggles of his fellow workers during a labor strike. Joe gets caught up in a romantic rivalry between his fiancée Anna and a wealthy mine owner's son. As tensions rise, Joe finds himself torn between loyalty to his fellow miners and the temptation of a better life. The film explores themes of social injustice, class divide, and the power of solidarity.

The Power and the Glory (1933) tells the story of a railroad tycoon who builds his empire through ruthless tactics, including adultery, suicide, and labor violence. As he becomes more powerful, his personal life falls apart, leading to a tragic ending. The film explores themes of loyalty, marriage, and the corrupting nature of wealth. It is set against the backdrop of 1930s Chicago.

A lost silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.

The Renault factory in Belgium must close down. Nobody can believe it. We follow the investigations by the director who is at the heart of the action and who interviews main politicians, the workers who violently protest and the direction. In the fiction part the president-director of Renault, Schweitzer is killed by one of the workers.

Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.