Worker Movies

  • 1969
    Why Are the Drums Rumbling?

    Why Are the Drums Rumbling?

    Why Are the Drums Rumbling?

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    Katrina and Xhavit, two young volunteers working on the construction of a railroad, fall in love and decide to marry. However, the girl's father does...

    Why Are the Drums Rumbling?
  • 2008
    Crude Oil

    Crude Oil

    Crude Oil

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    Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.

    Crude Oil
  • 2021
    Jobs for All!

    Jobs for All!

    Jobs for All!

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    A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer confronts...

    Jobs for All!
  • 1987
    A Broad Bellflower

    A Broad Bellflower

    A Broad Bellflower

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    Jin Song Rim strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village.

    A Broad Bellflower
  • 1968
    Bajo la tierra

    Bajo la tierra

    Bajo la tierra

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    Don Múnera is a young man from Tolima who ran away from the violence in his region, he tries to live in the big city, but things are not any better, s...

    Bajo la tierra
  • 2008
    Immokalee U.S.A.

    Immokalee U.S.A.

    Immokalee U.S.A.

    02008HD

    Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food tha...

    Immokalee U.S.A.
  • 1984
    Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

    Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

    Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

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    In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected....

    Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)
  • 1968
    Broad Horizons

    Broad Horizons

    Broad Horizons

    91968HD

    In 1968, Horizonte Te Hapura, directed by Viktor Gjika, one of the pioneers of Albanian moviemaking, broke new ground. Its subject matter was contempo...

    Broad Horizons
  • 1904
    Girls Taking Time Checks

    Girls Taking Time Checks

    Girls Taking Time Checks

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    Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

    Girls Taking Time Checks
  • 2026
    Service with a Smile

    Service with a Smile

    Service with a Smile

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    an eight-hour long experimental film/performance art piece in which filmmaker chandler pippin creates their own arbitrary form of service work and fil...

    Service with a Smile
  • 2012
    4 Buildings, Facing the Sea

    4 Buildings, Facing the Sea

    4 Buildings, Facing the Sea

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    Three months after the March 2011 disaster in Fukushima, TEPCO, the electric company operating the nuclear power plant, installed a livecam on the f...

    4 Buildings, Facing the Sea
  • 2002
    Railroad of Hope

    Railroad of Hope

    Railroad of Hope

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    Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from Sichuan in C...

    Railroad of Hope
  • 2016
    Nous, ouvriers : « Nos mains ont reconstruit la France » (1945-1963)

    Nous, ouvriers : « Nos mains ont reconstruit la France » (1945-1963)

    Nous, ouvriers : « Nos mains ont reconstruit la France » (1945-1963)

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    Nous, ouvriers : « Nos mains ont reconstruit la France » (1945-1963)
  • 1968
    Out of Step

    Out of Step

    Out of Step

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    A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of...

    Out of Step
  • 2017
    Play On

    Play On

    Play On

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    What happens when subcontracted precarious workers turn into podcast DJ. Subcontracted precarious workers at the SK Broadband, Inc. began a podcast ti...

    Play On
  • 1949
    Anna Szabó

    Anna Szabó

    Anna Szabó

    81949HD

    A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.

    Anna Szabó
  • 2016
    Nous, ouvriers : «Nos cœurs battent encore » (1983 à nos jours)

    Nous, ouvriers : «Nos cœurs battent encore » (1983 à nos jours)

    Nous, ouvriers : «Nos cœurs battent encore » (1983 à nos jours)

    82016HD

    Nous, ouvriers : «Nos cœurs battent encore » (1983 à nos jours)
  • 2026
    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings

    02026HD

    Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the tir...

    Beyond Ratings
  • 2023
    Rowena: The Red Ranger

    Rowena: The Red Ranger

    Rowena: The Red Ranger

    02023HD

    Rowena, an overworked and underpaid convenience store worker, has not been feeling well lately. She has a lot of bills to pay, her inconsiderate boss...

    Rowena: The Red Ranger
  • 2019
    Agony

    Agony

    Agony

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    Clocking out weighs on the mind of one low level minimum wage food service employee as the age old struggle of customer vs cashier begins to take plac...

    Agony