Labor Movies

Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her...

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the...

One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11...

Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and...

Ching-Chun, Nguyễn and Mei are both international students from Vietnam to Taiwan; however the reality is so different from what was...

In this martial arts action-drama, a swordsman named Toh Hong travels home after a long battle to discover his wife and children have been brutally...

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie...

Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C. V. Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman...

Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite...

An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote Texan/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two...

In a secluded village surrounded by forests and a river, an elderly beekeeper and a livestock farmer live alone, their lives shaped by tireless work...

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the...

Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local...