Labor Strike Movies

  • 2009
    The Old School of Capitalism

    The Old School of Capitalism

    The Old School of Capitalism

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    A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number...

    The Old School of Capitalism
  • 1991

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

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    For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then...

  • 2021
    In Spite of Ourselves

    In Spite of Ourselves

    In Spite of Ourselves

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    An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of...

    In Spite of Ourselves
  • 2021
    Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle

    Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle

    Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle

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    The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial...

    Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle
  • 2011
    Dream Factory

    Dream Factory

    Dream Factory

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    It's been more than 1,000 days since the workers of Cort/Cortek Guitar begun a struggle after the company abruptly closed down. Meanwhile, musicians...

    Dream Factory
  • 2011
    These were the reasons

    These were the reasons

    These were the reasons

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    This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

    These were the reasons
  • 2019
    Labor Wars of the Northwest

    Labor Wars of the Northwest

    Labor Wars of the Northwest

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    Discontent, radicalism, and violence permeated the U.S. Northwest in the early decades of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands of workers...

    Labor Wars of the Northwest