Labor Movies

This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...

Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture, this historical documentary,...

An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him.

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

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored,...

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

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