The Devil's Miner (2005), The Organizer (1963), Live Nude Girls, Unite! (2000), Salt of the Earth (1954), Machines (2016), Food Chains (2014), Import/Export (2007), Bread and Roses (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Working Conditions movies.
Storyline: Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.
Plot Keywords: documentary, poverty, survival, social issues, family, traditional culture, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.
Plot Keywords: working class, exploitation, poverty, protest, oppression, social injustice, class struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Live Nude Girls Unite!" is a fierce and funny first person documentary about a group of strippers who win the only union of exotic dancers in the United States. Stripper/Comedian Julia Query takes the audience on a turbulent journey beginning with her decision to leave graduate school and start stripping through the victory with the union, stopping along the way to tell her Jewish mother.
Plot Keywords: documentary, women's rights, social justice, gender equality, workers' rights, social change, labor rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces.—Bob Shields <rshields@igc.apc.org>
Plot Keywords: independent film, labor rights, racial discrimination, social justice, feminism, cold war era, working class ...
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: There is so much interest in food these days yet there is almost no interest in the hands that pick that food. In the US, farm labor has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the nation's most vulnerable people. While the legal restrictions which kept people bound to farms, like slavery, have been abolished, exploitation still exists, ranging from wage theft to modern-day slavery. These days, this exploitation is perpetuated by the corporations at the top of the food chain: supermarkets. Their buying power has kept wages pitifully low and has created a scenario where desperately poor people are willing to put up with anything to keep their jobs.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, labor rights, exploitation, social justice, human rights, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
Plot Keywords: social realism, european cinema, immigration, globalization, labor exploitation, poverty, unemployment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: social realism, immigration, labor rights, class struggle, los angeles, poverty, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.—Brave New Films
Plot Keywords: documentary, labor rights, exploitation, globalization, social justice, economic inequality, critique of capitalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: wales, working class, race relations, unemployment, solidarity, discrimination, black protagonist ...
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: working class, social justice, 1930s, workers' rights, social realism, political conspiracy, judicial injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Labor-rights activists battle Coca-Cola Co. over violations of international laws.
Plot Keywords: documentary, labor rights, human rights, investigation, social justice, workers' rights, murder case ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Struggling to support his family in Mexico, Roberto (Domingo Ambriz), a young Mexican man, illegally crosses the border to the United States in search of work. Exploited by his American employers, Roberto labors in harsh conditions for insufficient wages and fails to make enough money for his family. Continually on the lookout for immigration raids, Roberto has to maintain a constant vigilance as he travels from town to town, searching for employment.
Plot Keywords: immigration, mexico, poverty, family, survival, social injustice, exploitation ...
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 ...
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