Worker/Union-themed Movies
From CGEU
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Year, Title, Director(s)
2010s
2000s
- 2007 Fired!, Chris Bradley and Kyle LaBrache
- 2006 Rising from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter
- 2005 North Country, Niki Caro
- 2005 A Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin
- 2005 Time To Go John
- 2005 Lewis County: Hope and Struggle, Anne Fischel
- 2005 McLibel DVD, Franny Armstrong
- 2005 Granito de Arena
- 2005 Devil's Miner, Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani
- 2004 MUA Films
- 2004 The Human Cost of Mining, Paddy Gorman and Russ Hermann
- 2004 The Union: Fighting for a Fair Go, Paddy Gorman and Russ Hermann
- 2004 A Celebration of the Life of Tas Bull, Russ Hermann
- 2004 Fighting Films Book Launch, Russ Hermann
- 2004 Solidarity at Home and Abroad, Russ Hermann
- 2004 Militant & Progressive, Russ Hermann
- 2004 The Take, Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
- 2004 The Money Masters, i-Contact
- 2004 Greenham: The Making of a Monument, Ian and Thalia Campbell
- 2003 Shots on the Docks, Steve Zeltzer,
- 2003 The Globalisation Tapes, Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra
- 2003 Friends or Foe, Jiyoung Lee
- 2003 Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer
- 2002 10,000 Black Men Named George, Robert Townsend
- 2002 Occupation, Maple Razsa and Pancho Velez
- 2002 The Navigators, Ken Loach
- 2002 Wal-Mart's War On Workers, UFCW
- 2002 Drowned Out, Franny Armstrong
- 2002 Not This Time, Conscious Cinema
- 2000 Harlan County War, Tony Bill
- 2000 La Commune, Peter Watkins
- 2000 National Textiles, Russ Hermann
- 2000 Live Nude Girls Unite!, Vicky Funari and Julia Query
- 2000 Erin Brockovich, Steven Soderbergh
- 2000 Chicken Run, Peter Lord and Nick Park
- 2000 Billy Elliot, Stephen Daldry
1990s
- 1999 Golden Lands, Working Hands
- 1999 Human Resources (Ressources Humaine), Laurent Cantet
- 1999 Oakdale, Russ Hermann
- 1999 Oh Freedom After a While, Steven John Ross
- 1999 Dockers, Bill Anderson
- 1999 Bread and Roses, Ken Loach
- 1999 Cradle Will Rock, Tim Robbins
- 1999 Made In Thailand, Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery
- 1999 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand, St. Clair Bourne
- 1998 Antz, Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson
- 1998 Seeds of Hope, Neil Goodwin
- 1998 Zapatista!, Big Noise Films
- 1997 Vickery Life on the Picket, Russ Hermann
- 1997 Full Monty, Peter Cattaneo
- 1996 Libertarias (Freedomfighters), Vincente Aranda
- 1996 Mother Trucker, The Diana Kilmury Story, Sturla Gunnarsson
- 1996 Brassed Off, Mark Herman
- 1995 Justice in the Coal Fields, Anne Lewis
- 1993 At the River I Stand, David Appleby, Allison Graham, and Steven John Ross
- 1993 Germinal, Claude Berri
- 1992 Newsies, Kenny Ortega
- 1992 Hoffa, Danny DeVito
- 1991 The Killing of Angel Street, Donald Crombie
- 1990 American Dream, Barbara Kopple
- 1990 Riff-Raff, Ken Loach
1980s
- 1989 Roger and Me, Michael Moore
- 1989 Business As Usual, Lezli-Ann Barrett
- 1989 Friends & Enemies, Tom Zubrycki
- 1988 Amor, Mujeres y Flores, Marta Rodriguez
- 1988 Deep Bells Ring: Paul Pobeson, Russ Hermann
- 1988 Powaqqatsi, Godfrey Reggio
- 1987 Matewan, John Sayles
- 1987 Wall Street, Oliver Stone
- 1987 How the West Was Lost, David Noakes
- 1987 Business as Usual, Lezil-An Barrett
- 1986 Rocinante, Cinema Action
- 1986 Rocking the Foundations, Pat Fiske
- 1986 Gung Ho, Ron Howard
- 1984 For Love or Money, Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley
- 1984 Meantime, Mike Leigh
- 1984 Which Side Are You On?, Ken Loach
- 1984 Strikebound, Richard Lowenstein
- 1983 Even the Heavens Weep: The West Virginia Mine Wars, Lou Buttino
- 1983 Kemira - Diary of a Strike, Tom Zubrycki
- 1983 Carry Greenham Home, Beeban Kidron
- 1983 Silkwood, Mike Nichols
- 1983 The Centenary of the Painters & Dockers, Russ Hermann
- 1981 Reds, Warren Beatty
- 1981 Rocking the Boat, Cinema Action
- 1981 So That You Can Live, Cinema Action
- 1981 Waterloo, Tom Zubrycki
- 1980 Nine To Five, Colin Higgins
- 1980 The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, Connie Field
1970s
- 1979 The Wobblies, Deborah Shaffer & Stewart Bird
- 1979 Evictions, Richard Lowenstein
- 1978 Sack Black - The struggle for democracy in the BLF, Russ Hermann and Tom Zubrycki
- 1978 Norma Rae, Martin Ritt
- 1978 Blue Collar, Paul Schrader
- 1978 F.I.S.T., Norman Jewison
- 1976 The Painters & Dockers Strike - Garden Island, Russ Hermann and Tom Zubrycki
- 1976 Victoria Street May Day 1976, Robert Lee Chittick
- 1976 Harlan County, U.S.A., Barbara Kopple
- 1976 Bound for Glory, Hal Ashby
- 1975 The Miners' Film, Cinema Action
- 1974 La Patagoni rebelde (Rebellion in Patagonia), Hector Olivera
- 1973 Arise Ye Workers, Cinema Action
- 1971 The Ballad Of Joe Hill, Bo Widerberg
- 1971 UCS II, Cinema Action
- 1971 UCS I, Cinema Action
- 1970 People of Ireland, Cinema Action
- 1970 Molly Maguires, Martin Ritt
- 1970 Fighting the Bill, Cinema Action
1960s
- 1969 The Big Flame, Ken Loach
- 1969 Adalan, Bo Widerberg
- 1968 Not a Penny on the Rent, Cinema Action
- 1964 The Inheritance
- 1963 Compagni, I (The Organizer), Mario Monicelli
- 1960 Deadly the Harvest, Society of Friends
1950s
- 1957 Pajama Game, George Abbott and Stanley Donen
- 1957 Island in the Sun, Robert Rossen
- 1954 Salt of the Earth, Herbert J. Biberman
- 1954 On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan
- 1953 - 1959 Waterside Workers' Film Unit
1940s
- 1949 Christ in Concrete, Edward Dmytryk
- 1946 Indonesia Calling, Joris Ivens
- 1942 Native Land, Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand
- 1941 The Devil and Miss Jones, Sam Wood
- 1941 How Green Was My Valley, John Ford
- 1940 The Grapes Of Wrath, John Ford
- 1940 Proud Valley, Pen Tennyson
1930s
- 1936 Modern Times, Charie Chaplin
1920s
- 1927 Metropolis, Fritz Lang
- 1927 October, Sergei Eisenstein
- 1925 Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein
- 1924 Strike, Sergei Eisenstein
The inspiration for this list was an excellent page on films about "Workers in Struggle" on the UnionSong.com website established by Mark Gregory in Australia.
