Migrant Worker Movies
- 1960
Harvest of Shame
Harvest of Shame6.61960HD
In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range fr...
- 2017
Terrain Vague
Terrain Vague62017HD
A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his sexual...
- 2016
Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams02016HD
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would pro...
- 2017
See You, Lovable Strangers
See You, Lovable Strangers52017HD
Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were deported...
- 2018
YAYA
YAYA72018HD
YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her fam...
- 2013
Sex: My British Job
Sex: My British Job5.42013HD
Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chin...
- 2016
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Farewell Ferris Wheel7.32016HD
Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the contro...
- 2021
Dignity Keeper
Dignity Keeper02021HD
When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and f...
- 1994
Ekmek Parasi – Geld fürs Brot
Ekmek Parasi – Geld fürs Brot5.51994HD
The vegetables come from the garden behind the house, the fish comes out of a can, and money for bread is earned at the factory. It’s because of thi...
- 2014
Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés
Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés102014HD
- 2014
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time02014HD
Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down when...
- 2021
Migrant Mother
Migrant Mother02021HD
Migranta tells the stories of Vicky, Betty and Lety, (three mothers who have come to Canada from Mexico as part of the federal government’s Seasonal A...
- 2023
A Tomato Tragedy
A Tomato Tragedy02023HD
In southern Italy, stateless migrants pick the tomatoes the rest of the world will taste. But what about these workers’ European dreams? Will they be...
- 2020
The Lucky Woman
The Lucky Woman02020HD
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers d...
- 2016
Number Eighty
Number Eighty02016HD
Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and...
- 2017
Between Pudukkottai & Singapore
Between Pudukkottai & Singapore02017HD
This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while w...
- 2001
In Foreign Soil
In Foreign Soil02001HD
In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to...
- 2018
Ali
Ali02018HD
A Haitian migrant struggles to bring his son to Chile from their homeland. He works as a waiter in a restaurant where he must endure the petulance of...
- 2023
Bitter Sweet Ballad
Bitter Sweet Ballad02023HD
This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the childre...
- 2014
Les messagers
Les messagers5.22014HD
From the Sahara to Mellila, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, unlike their companions - all migrants who were literally and symbol...