Strike Movies

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand...

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebe...

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's par...

Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the £...

Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between th...

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

A RECORD OF THE STRIKE AT GRUNWICK IN 1977. The story of the continuing struggle at Grunwick’s by mainly Indian workers, from July 11th, 1977 until t...

Ajay (Asif Ali) is a student at National Defense Academy, Pune. His ambition is to become a soldier. Ajay’s father Sidharth Sankar is a well known law...

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 labor...

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune...

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new sh...

This is a semi documentary about a Belgian woman trying to deal with her confused ideals after the big industrial strikes in Wallony. To do so, she go...

In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under occupat...

1979. Four female workers have lunch break inside the ladies' room, at a metallurgical factory. Between laughs and scuffles, each one has a secret of...

Documentary about the CUGWU strike of 2022.

Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by stri...

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.