Labor Movement movies

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This list contains movies which include the labor movement as part of their narrative. Featuring organizing, unions, and strikes, these movies depict the efforts of workers throughout history to work together for better conditions and treatment.

This list strives to be comprehensive, and thus includes ...
- movies that depict the labor movement in a positive light
- movies that honestly depict the occasional errors and ambiguity of the labor movement
- movies in which the labor movement is merely a background feature to a narrative focused on other themes
- movies influenced by tendentious corporate interests that malign the working people through exaggeration and slander


Please consult the following sources for more information:
- Ken Margolies, "Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions," Screen Actor, 1981 (https://bit.ly/2Q8iCxw)
- Steve Ross, "Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America," 2000 (https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6180.html)
- The Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/labor.html)
- The Labor Film Database (https://laborfilms.com/)

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  1. 80 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  2. 269 -2

    Billy Elliot

    2000, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Irishman

    2019, in 7 top lists Check
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    Pride

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
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    Sorry to Bother You

    2018, in 4 top lists
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    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
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    Harlan County U.S.A.

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
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    Novecento

    1976 — a.k.a. 1900, in 6 top lists Check
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    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check
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    Reds

    1981, in 9 top lists Check
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    Bab el hadid

    1958 — a.k.a. Cairo Station, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Man in the White Suit

    1951, in 5 top lists Check
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    Blue Collar

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
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    Otoshiana

    1962 — a.k.a. Pitfall, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Replacements

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Newsies

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
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    Norma Rae

    1979, in 4 top lists Check
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    North Country

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    Kill the Irishman

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
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    Salt of the Earth

    1954, in 6 top lists Check
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    Matewan

    1987, in 4 top lists Check
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    Silkwood

    1983, in 4 top lists Check
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    I compagni

    1963 — a.k.a. The Organizer, in 4 top lists Check
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    American Factory

    2019, in 1 top list
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    Le crime de Monsieur Lange

    1936 — a.k.a. The Crime of Monsieur Lange, in 7 top lists Check
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    Made in Dagenham

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mat

    1926 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check
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    La classe operaia va in paradiso

    1971 — a.k.a. Lulu the Tool, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Trotsky

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Devil and Miss Jones

    1941, in 1 top list Check
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    Tout va bien

    1972 — a.k.a. Tout Va Bien, in 4 top lists Check
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    Martin Eden

    2019, in 1 top list
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    Még kér a nép

    1972 — a.k.a. Red Psalm, in 4 top lists Check
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    Potiche

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
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    Czlowiek z zelaza

    1981 — a.k.a. Man of Iron, in 5 top lists Check
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    Nothing But a Man

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
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    Hoffa

    1992, in 2 top lists Check
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    Bound for Glory

    1976, in 3 top lists Check
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    Acht Stunden sind kein Tag

    1972 — a.k.a. Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, in 3 top lists Check
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    I'm All Right Jack

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
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    Comrades

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
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    Germinal

    1993, in 1 top list Check
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    Last Exit to Brooklyn

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
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    Boxcar Bertha

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
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    Här har du ditt liv

    1966 — a.k.a. Here Is Your Life, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Pajama Game

    1957, in 3 top lists Check
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    Dorogie tovarishchi

    2020 — a.k.a. Dear Comrades!, in 0 top lists
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    High Flying Bird

    2019, in 0 top lists
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