Labor Movies

  • 2024
    The Paradise of Thorns

    The Paradise of Thorns

    The Paradise of Thorns

    8.12024HD

    When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.

    The Paradise of Thorns
  • 2022
    Homebound

    Homebound

    Homebound

    02022HD

    Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

    Homebound
  • 2023
    Doi Boy

    Doi Boy

    Doi Boy

    6.22023HD

    Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex...

    Doi Boy
  • 1979
    Norma Rae

    Norma Rae

    Norma Rae

    7.21979HD

    Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the...

    Norma Rae
  • 2000
    Harlan County War

    Harlan County War

    Harlan County War

    7.32000HD

    A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket...

    Harlan County War
  • 1976
    Car Wash

    Car Wash

    Car Wash

    61976HD

    This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of...

    Car Wash
  • 1977
    Harlan County U.S.A.

    Harlan County U.S.A.

    Harlan County U.S.A.

    7.41977HD

    This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973....

    Harlan County U.S.A.
  • 2023
    Youth (Spring)

    Youth (Spring)

    Youth (Spring)

    7.12023HD

    This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...

    Youth (Spring)
  • 1988
    Rat Man

    Rat Man

    Rat Man

    5.1641988HD

    After a model is brutally murdered on a Caribbean island, her sister's investigation uncovers a horrifying rat-like creature.

    Rat Man
  • 2013
    Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

    Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

    Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

    4.52013HD

    Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie...

    Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
  • 2018
    Induced Labor

    Induced Labor

    Induced Labor

    6.62018HD

    Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite...

    Induced Labor
  • 1975
    Open files

    Open files

    Open files

    01975HD

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

    Open files
  • 1955
    La vida no vale nada

    La vida no vale nada

    La vida no vale nada

    8.2071955HD

    Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

    La vida no vale nada
  • 1990
    American Dream

    American Dream

    American Dream

    7.1671990HD

    When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local...

    American Dream
  • 2010
    Ip Man 2

    Ip Man 2

    Ip Man 2

    7.4532010HD

    Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling...

    Ip Man 2
  • 1988
    Yellow River Fighter

    Yellow River Fighter

    Yellow River Fighter

    6.71988HD

    In this martial arts action-drama, a swordsman named Toh Hong travels home after a long battle to discover his wife and children have been brutally...

    Yellow River Fighter
  • 1977
    Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History

    Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History

    Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History

    01977HD

    How Finnish immigrants came into contact — and conflict — with industrial America. Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how...

    Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History
  • 2010
    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    02010HD

    Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

    Habilito: Debt for Life
  • 1991
    Convicts

    Convicts

    Convicts

    5.51991HD

    In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the...

    Convicts
  • 1981
    Man Versus Man

    Man Versus Man

    Man Versus Man

    01981HD

    Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...

    Man Versus Man