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. 123 -1

    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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    Days of Hope

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    Novecento

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

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Irishman

    2019, in 7 top lists Check
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    Reds

    1981, in 9 top lists Check
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    Haisiyat

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    Comrades

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
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    A Fábrica de Nada

    2017 — a.k.a. The Nothing Factory, in 0 top lists
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    We the Workers

    2017, in 0 top lists
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    Billy Elliot the Musical

    2014, 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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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
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    Germinal

    1993, in 1 top list Check
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    Czlowiek z zelaza

    1981 — a.k.a. Man of Iron, in 5 top lists Check
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    Germinal

    1913 — a.k.a. Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor, in 2 top lists Check
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    Sagina Mahato

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
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    Bound for Glory

    1976, in 3 top lists Check
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    Namak Haraam

    1973 — a.k.a. The Ungrateful, in 1 top list Check
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    F.I.S.T

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hoffa

    1992, in 2 top lists Check
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    Come See the Paradise

    1990, in 0 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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    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
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    Martin Eden

    2019, in 1 top list
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    North Country

    2005, in 0 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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    Hotel

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Molly Maguires

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    The River

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Burning Season

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    Cananea

    1978, in 0 top lists
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    Dorogie tovarishchi

    2020 — a.k.a. Dear Comrades!, in 0 top lists
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    Newsies

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Experience: Mine Wars

    2016, in 0 top lists Check
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    Eles Não Usam Black-Tie

    1981 — a.k.a. They Don't Wear Black Tie, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Fight in the Fields

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Trotsky

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    Pride

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Valley of Decision

    1945, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Playhouse: The Killing Floor

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
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    Joe Hill

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Replacements

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Play for Today: Leeds United

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
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    Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
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    Blue Collar

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
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