The War You and I

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts....

The workers talk about the pleasure of starting work in a shipyard, the pride of making the vessel, and the recognition of workers and the high...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An...

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine,...