Labor Movement movies
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This list contains movies which include the labor movement as part of their narrative. Featuring organizing, unions, and strikes, these movies depict the efforts of workers throughout history to work together for better conditions and treatment.
This list strives to be comprehensive, and thus includes ...
- movies that depict the labor movement in a positive light
- movies that honestly depict the occasional errors and ambiguity of the labor movement
- movies in which the labor movement is merely a background feature to a narrative focused on other themes
- movies influenced by tendentious corporate interests that malign the working people through exaggeration and slander
Please consult the following sources for more information:
- Ken Margolies, "Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions," Screen Actor, 1981 (https://bit.ly/2Q8iCxw)
- Steve Ross, "Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America," 2000 (https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6180.html)
- The Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/labor.html)
- The Labor Film Database (https://laborfilms.com/)
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Balanchard en grève
1910 — a.k.a. Mr. Faddleaway Is on Strike, in 0 top lists -
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Comment le cinéma se défend contre la grève
1910 — a.k.a. How They Work in Cinema, in 0 top lists -
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The Girl Strike Leader
1910, in 0 top lists Check -
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Pete Wants a Job
1910, in 0 top lists -
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The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine
1911, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Strike at the Mines
1911, in 0 top lists Check -
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Tim Mahoney, the Scab
1911, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Agitator
1912 — a.k.a. The Cowboy Socialist, in 0 top lists Check -
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Brothers Under the Skin
1912, in 0 top lists Check -
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How the Cause Was Won
1912, in 0 top lists -
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Lazy Bill and the Strikers
1912, in 0 top lists -
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From Dusk to Dawn
1913, in 0 top lists Check -
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Germinal
1913 — a.k.a. Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Struggle
1913, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dough and Dynamite
1914, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Jungle
1914, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Strike
1914, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Strike at Coaldale
1914, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Valley of the Moon
1914, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Absentee
1915, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Blacklist
1916, in 0 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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Dangerous Hours
1919, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Right to Happiness
1919, in 0 top lists Check -
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Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki - I.W.W. Rat
1919, in 0 top lists Check -
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The New Disciple
1921, in 0 top lists Check -
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A Tailor-Made Man
1922 — a.k.a. A Tailor Made Man, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bell Boy 13
1923, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gossip
1923, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Right to Strike
1923, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Walkout
1923, in 0 top lists Check -
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Alice's Egg Plant
1925, in 0 top lists Check -
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Coming Through
1925, in 0 top lists Check -
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Labor's Reward
1925, in 0 top lists Check -
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Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Dixie Flyer
1926, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mat
1926 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Passaic Textile Strike
1926, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dom na Trubnoy
1928, in 5 top lists Check -
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Brüder
1929 — a.k.a. Brother, in 0 top lists Check -
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Uncle Moses
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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Dezertir
1933 — a.k.a. Deserter, in 1 top list Check -
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Misère au Borinage
1934 — a.k.a. Borinage, in 4 top lists Check -
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The St. Louis Kid
1934 — a.k.a. A Perfect Week-End, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sons of Steel
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Black Fury
1935, in 0 top lists Check -
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Fury Below
1936, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le crime de Monsieur Lange
1936 — a.k.a. The Crime of Monsieur Lange, in 7 top lists Check -
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Millions of Us
1936, in 0 top lists Check -
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Redes
1936, in 4 top lists Check
Last updated on Feb 1, 2024 by Blocho;