Workers in Struggle: Film, Video and DVD
1924 Strike, Sergei Eisenstein
1925 Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein
1940 The Grapes Of Wrath, John Ford
1946 Indonesia
Calling, Joris Ivens
1953 - 1959 Waterside
Workers' Film Unit
1954 Salt
of the Earth,
Herbert J. Biberman
1960 Deadly the Harvest, Society of Friends
1963 Compagni,
I (The
Organiser), Mario Monicelli
1968 Not
a Penny on the Rent, Cinema Action
1969 Adalan, Bo Widerberg
1969 The Big Flame,
Ken Loach
1970 Fighting
the Bill, Cinema Action
1970 People
of Ireland, Cinema Action
1971 UCS
I, Cinema Action
1971 The Ballad Of Joe Hill, Bo Widerberg
1971 UCS
II, Cinema Action
1973 Arise
Ye Workers, Cinema Action
1975 The
Miners' Film, Cinema Action
1976 Harlan County,
U.S.A., Barbara Kopple
1976 Victoria
Street May Day 1976, Robert Lee Chittick
1976 The Painters & Dockers Strike - Garden Island, Russ Hermann and
Tom Zubrycki
1978 Norma Rae, Martin
Ritt
1978 Sack Black - The struggle for democracy in the BLF, Russ Hermann and
Tom Zubrycki
1979 Evictions,
Richard Lowenstein
1979 The
Wobblies, Deborah Shaffer & Stewart Bird
1980 The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, Connie Field
1980 Nine To Five, Colin Higgins
1981 Waterloo, Tom Zubrycki
1981 So
That
You Can Live, Cinema Action
1981 Rocking
the Boat,
Cinema Action
1983 The Centenary of the Painters & Dockers, Russ Hermann
1983 Silkwood,
Mike Nichols
1983 Carry
Greenham Home, Beeban Kidron
1984 Strikebound,
Richard Lowenstein
1983 Kemira
- Diary of a Strike, Tom Zubrycki
1984 Which Side
Are You On?, Ken Loach
1984 Meantime,
Mike Leigh
1984 For
Love or Money, Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver
and Jeni Thornley
1986 Rocking
the Foundations, Pat Fiske
1986 Rocinante,
Cinema Action
1987 How the
West Was Lost, David Noakes
1987 Wall Street, Oliver Stone
1987 Matewan,
John Sayles
1988 Deep Bells Ring: Paul Pobeson, Russ Hermann
1988 Amor,
Mujeres y Flores, Marta Rodriguez
1989 Friends & Enemies, Tom Zubrycki
1989 Business As Usual, Lezli-Ann Barrett
1989 Roger and Me, Michael Moore
1990 Riff-Raff,
Ken Loach
1991 The
Killing
of Angel Street, Donald Crombie
1993 Germinal,
Claude Berri
1997 Vickery
Life on the Picket, Russ Hermann
1998 Zapatista!,
Big Noise Films
1998 Seeds
of Hope, Neil Goodwin
1999 Paul
Robeson: Here I Stand, St. Clair Bourne
1999 Made
In Thailand, Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery
1999 Cradle Will Rock, Tim Robbins
1999 Bread
and Roses, Ken Loach
1999 Dockers, Bill Anderson
1999 Oh
Freedom After
a While, Steven John Ross
1999 Oakdale,
Russ Hermann
2000 National Textiles,
Russ Hermann
2000 La
Commune,
Peter Watkins
2001 Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century, Philip King
2002 Not
This Time, Conscious Cinema
2002 Drowned
Out, Franny Armstrong
2002 Wal-Mart's
War On Workers, UFCW
2003 Friends or
Foe, Jiyoung Lee
2003 The
Globalisation
Tapes, Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra
2003 Standing Together, Joan Robinson
2003 Shots
on the Docks, Steve Zeltzer
2004 Greenham:
The
Making of a Monument, Ian and Thalia Campbell
2004 The
Money Masters, i-Contact
2004 The
Take, Avi Lewis
2004 Militant & Progressive,
Russ Hermann
2004 Solidarity at
Home and Abroad,
Russ Hermann
2004 Fighting Films
Book Launch,
Russ Hermann
2004 A Celebration of the Life
of Tas Bull,
Russ Hermann
2004 The Union: Fighting for
a Fair Go,
Paddy Gorman and Russ Hermann
2004 The Human
Cost of Mining,
Paddy Gorman and Russ Hermann
2004 MUA Films
2005 McLibel
DVD,
Franny Armstrong
2005 Lewis County: Hope and Struggle, Anne Fischel
2005 Time To Go John
2005 The American Ruling Class, John Kirby
2007 Lockout, Jason Van Genderen
2007 From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks, Haskell Wexler
2007 Bastard Boys, Raymond Quint
2007 Hold The Line, Joan Robinson
2007 Constructing Fear, Joe Loh
2007 Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Jim Brown
2008 Tanaka-san Will Not Do Callisthenics, Maree Delofski
see also
Australian
Film Commission
Berkeley
Labor Guides
British
Film Institute: Political Film
California Newsreel
Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF)
Culture Shop
La Lutta New Media Collective
Labor-Related
Films in the Library of Congress Collection
Labor
Heritage Foundation Catalogue
LabourStart DVD shop
LabourStart.tv
May Day Labor Film Festival
Seditious Intent: films inspired by Australia's Anti-Terror Bill
Spanner Films
United
Mine Workers of America
and for prospective films
Democracy ProjectEric Lee from LabourStart writes:
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