Hoffa

Hoffa 1992

6.25

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.

1992

The Funeral

The Funeral 1996

6.80

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

1996

Carry On at Your Convenience

Carry On at Your Convenience 1971

6.20

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.

1971

I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack 1959

6.63

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

1959

The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence 1960

7.10

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.

1960

Here Is Your Life

Here Is Your Life 1966

7.10

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

1966

Net Worth

Net Worth 1995

5.60

The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.

1995

Chance of a Lifetime

Chance of a Lifetime 1950

6.30

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

1950

The Night Before the Strike

The Night Before the Strike 1990

6.20

There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member of the team and they all go drinking together to welcome him.

1990

Sin Bin

Sin Bin 1994

1

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.

1994

The Stars Look Down

The Stars Look Down 1940

6.52

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

1940

The Red Elvis

The Red Elvis 2007

7.30

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

2007

His Excellency

His Excellency 1952

6.00

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

1952

Placido Rizzotto

Placido Rizzotto 2000

6.70

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.

2000

The Flickering Flame

The Flickering Flame 1996

5.70

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at the TUC conference.

1996

An Injury to One

An Injury to One 2002

6.50

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

2002

The Willmar 8

The Willmar 8 1981

6.00

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

1981

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe 2019

7.00

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

2019

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade 1978

6.00

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors sit-down strike in 1936–1937 that focuses uniquely on the role of women using archival footage and interviews. It provides an inside look at women's roles in the strike. The film was one of the first to put together archival footage with contemporary interviews of participants and helped spur a series of films on left and labor history in the US utilizing this technique. The film was also important in helping bring into view the history of American women being active in the public sphere, particularly in union and labor actions. The film was, further, ground breaking because it was produced and directed by women. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

1978

The True Believers

The True Believers 1988

1

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."

1988

Bastard Boys

Bastard Boys 2007

1

Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Television Script.

2007

The Struggles for Poland

The Struggles for Poland 1987

10.00

This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films, newsreels, interviews, and readings from novels and poems.

1987