The Lovely Month of May (1963), The Big Scary "S" Word (2020), Daens (1992), Machines (2016), The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), An American Romance (1944), Pittsburgh (1942), Millions Like Us (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Workers movies.
Storyline: Actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret narrate an introduction to springtime in Paris, as described by its citizens.
Plot Keywords: documentary, paris, 1960s, cinéma vérité, social observation, everyday life, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After documenting the taboo word that it shows Socialism has historically been in the US, the film argues it is way past time to replace the failed capitalist economic system.
Plot Keywords: capitalism, documentary, politics, usa, economy, history, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, social, political, religious, class, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanising physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries. Since the 1960s the area of Sachin in western India has undergone unprecedented, unregulated industrialisation, exemplified in its numerous textile factories. MACHINES portraits only one of these factories, while at the same time representing the thousands of labourers working, living and suffering in an environment they can't escape without unity. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality and oppression, humans and machines.
Plot Keywords: documentary, india, social issues, exploitation, poverty, human rights, globalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, women, history, society, feminism, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, american, classic, black and white, historical, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, usa, documentary, military, industry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the outbreak of World War II, Celia (Patricia Roc) and her family must join the domestic British war effort. Celia is recruited to work in a munitions factory, where her co-workers represent a variety of social classes. She falls in love with Fred Blake (Gordon Jackson), a young pilot, and the two are married. Fred is soon deployed to battle, however, and Celia must face the harsh realities of life as a soldier's wife, while continuing her crucial work on the home front.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, britain, women, family, sacrifice, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tsunami is triggered when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hits the Pacific Ocean near Japan. A plant manager risks everything and stays put to handle the pending disaster once a reactor begins to leak. He is in contact with the parent utility TEPCO. The Japanese army moves in. The Americans also show up to command the situation. The plant employees fight on.—aghaemi
Plot Keywords: disaster, japan, based on true events, heroism, sacrifice, crisis management, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
Plot Keywords: war, history, drama, world war ii, industry, patriotic, propaganda ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
Plot Keywords: war, drama, film noir, 1940s, world war ii, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Desperate to reverse their economic fortunes, the elders of a small Japanese coal-mining town decide to create a Hawaiian center tourist attraction. They hire Madoka (Yasuko Matsuyuki), a professional dancer from Tokyo, to recruit and train hula dancers. The group includes hulking Sayuri (Shizuyo Yamasaki) and the hesitant Kimiko (Yû Aoi). Things seem hopeless at first, but with encouragement from Kimiko's brother, Yojiro (Etsushi Toyokawa), Madoka redoubles her efforts to make things work.
Plot Keywords: dance, coming of age, japan, 1960s, small town, dreams, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After an earthquake wakes a giant creature trapped in a mountain, residents have to find a way to kill it before it destroys the entire town.
Plot Keywords: documentary, china, environment, pollution, industry, social issues, health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Hall (David Andrews) is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, monster, stephen king, adaptation, dark, mystery ...
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