Movies: Labor

  • 2007
    The Braceros, An Oregon Experience

    The Braceros, An Oregon Experience (2007)

    The Braceros, An Oregon Experience

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    World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to join the military or to seek work in the cities. The solution would be a unique contract-worker agree...

    The Braceros, An Oregon Experience
  • 1954
    The Research Director

    The Research Director (1954)

    The Research Director

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    A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic information, and the arrangement of arguments that lie beneath the negotiations of labour unions for better ...

    The Research Director
  • 2007
    The Job

    The Job (2007)

    The Job

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    A satirical look at the plight of the day laborer in the United States....

    The Job
  • 1999
    Berlino

    Berlino (1999)

    Berlino

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    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, phone home. They try to survive. Berlino is a moving documentary about displacement....

    Berlino
  • 1975
    Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker

    Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker (1975)

    Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker

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    The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form....

    Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker
  • 2018
    Robot Somnambulism

    Robot Somnambulism (2018)

    Robot Somnambulism

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    In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?...

    Robot Somnambulism
  • 2017
    Welu De Fasli

    Welu De Fasli (2017)

    Welu De Fasli

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    Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a conversation among the sounds of candlenuts....

    Welu De Fasli
  • 2022
    Let's Rise Up

    Let's Rise Up (2022)

    Let's Rise Up

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    On 9 July 2021, the 422 workers at the GKN factory in Campi Bisenzio near Florence received their dismissal, by email. They immediately met in front of the factory, scared away the management's bodyguards and have been holding an open-ended meeting a...

    Let's Rise Up
  • 2010
    Harvest of Loneliness

    Harvest of Loneliness (2010)

    Harvest of Loneliness

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    Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture, this historical documentary, "Harvest Of Loneliness: The Bracero Program," examines what was known as the Bracero Program-a system pu...

    Harvest of Loneliness