Movies: Labor

  • 1934
    America Today

    America Today (1934)

    America Today

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    One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11 minutes. Skillfully edited, the picture captures a panorama of international events centered on the labor mo...

    America Today
  • 1952
    Your Social Security

    Your Social Security (1952)

    Your Social Security

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    An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards....

    Your Social Security
  • 2000
    My Father

    My Father (2000)

    My Father

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    This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot themselves and leave their families to get work?" as he sets out to search for his own father. He wonde...

    My Father
  • 1975
    Open files

    Open files (1975)

    Open files

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    A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes -...

    Open files
  • 2015
    Cleaners

    Cleaners (2015)

    Cleaners

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    Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant cleaners outsourced at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London continue to demand ...

    Cleaners
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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