The Valley of Decision (1945), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Comrades (1986), Man of Iron (1981), I'm All Right, Jack (1960), Black Fury (1935), The Little Minister (1934) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Labor Strike movies.
Storyline: An Irish maid, Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson), falls for Paul (Gregory Peck), who is the son of her rich boss, William Scott (Donald Crisp). To further complicate matters, Mary's father, Pat (Lionel Barrymore), lost both of his legs in an accident at the steel mill owned by Paul's father. Neither William or Pat approves of the couple's romance, and the burgeoning relationship only becomes a bigger battleground when a strike erupts at the steel mill.
Plot Keywords: boss, maid, father, mill worker, owner, son, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck's iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family -- led by just-paroled son Tom -- loads up a truck and heads West. On the road, beset by hardships, the Joads meet dozens of other families making the same trek and holding onto the same dream. Once in California, however, the Joads soon realize that the promised land isn't quite what they hoped.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, sharecropper, priest, uncle, grandfather, grandmother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwilym and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is. Gwilym has greater hopes for his youngest son, but Huw has his own ideas on how to honor his father. Daughter Angharad is the most beautiful girl in the valley and is very much in love with Mr. Gruffydd, who isn't sure he can provide her the life she deserves. Times are hard and good men find themselves out of work and exploited by unseen mine owners.
Plot Keywords: father, mother, brother, sister, coal miner, preacher, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: minister, landowner, laborer, organizer, protester, farmer, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: reporter, filmmaker, laborer, political boss, striker, union boss, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Naive Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management, as well as the trade union, use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Plot Keywords: communist, industrialist, businessperson, cheeky, lighthearted, witty, factory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
Plot Keywords: miner, best friend, union boss, thug, melodramatic, rousing, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: reverend, gypsy, lord, business owner, employee, villager, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.—Mike Patton <film@start.no>
Plot Keywords: american, maid, priest, laborer, monkey, impostor, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.
Plot Keywords: college student, political boss, radical, girlfriend, hippie, terrorist, fiery ...
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