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. 3 -

    The Girl Strike Leader

    1910, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 5 -

    The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine

    1911, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 6 -

    The Strike at the Mines

    1911, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 7 -

    Tim Mahoney, the Scab

    1911, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 8 -

    The Agitator

    1912 — a.k.a. The Cowboy Socialist, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 9 -

    Brothers Under the Skin

    1912, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 14 -

    The Struggle

    1913, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 15 -

    Dough and Dynamite

    1914, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 17 -

    The Strike

    1914, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 18 -

    The Strike at Coaldale

    1914, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 25 -

    Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki - I.W.W. Rat

    1919, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 31 -

    The Walkout

    1923, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 43 -

    Misère au Borinage

    1934 — a.k.a. Borinage, in 4 top lists Check
  14. 49 -

    Millions of Us

    1936, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 53 -

    The People of the Cumberland

    1937, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 66 -

    Deadline for Action

    1946, in 1 top list Check
  17. 71 -

    The Rising Tide

    1949, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 77 -

    The Seafarers

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 78 -

    The Shop Steward

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 84 -

    Strike in Town

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 99 -

    The Inheritance

    1964, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 111 -

    I Am Somebody

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 157 -1

    Eugene Debs and the American Movement

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 173 -1

    As Friend and Foe

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 187 -1

    An Equal Opportunity

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 191 -1

    Who Wants Unions

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 202 -1

    The Right to Work Movement

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 207 -1

    A Union Free Seminar

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 211 -1

    Why Unions?

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 234 -2

    Chandler's Mill

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 264 -2

    Made in Thailand

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Gina, an Actress, Age 29

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Industria argentina

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Together We Win: The Fight to Organize Starbucks

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    24 Days in Brooks

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Viva la causa

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
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