A campaign against the abuse of female workers by their male bosses, which starts in early 1970s Cleveland, leads to a popular fiction film with Fonda, Parton and Tomlin.

This award-winning documentary exposes child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world's biggest corporations, which produce some of our most loved items. Filmed across six countries, the documentary offers a harrowing account of children as young as five years old making the products we buy and consume every day. Chilling undercover footage shows children being sold like animals to the highest bidder and others being abused by this pervasive slave labor.

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

The story of the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-08 that pitted Hollywood's writers against the major studios.

It's 1926. Britain is taken to the brink of revolution only seven years after the slaughter of the trenches. Savage austerity cuts imposed by the government turn law abiding citizens into law breakers in a heroic battle against the state.

Built of testimonies, historical background and evocative visual images from photos and film footage, this is the story of millions of Mexican men and women who experienced the contract labor program known as the Bracero Program over its twenty-two years. The film documents desperate Mexican workers hoping to make enough money doing farm work in California and the Southwest to send back to impoverished families in Mexico. Those hopes were cruelly crushed when workers faced conditions, as many in the movie testified, akin to slavery. The film also shows how contract labor programs make union organizing virtually impossible and warns us what to expect from any new attempt at more recent guest worker programs that have been promoted by both Republicans and Democrats.

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Ms. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom.

Julia Query, activist, comedian, lesbian and stripper at a club called the Lusty Lady, put in long hours on stage and in the peep booth along with fellow exotic dancers Decadence, Lolita, and Octopussy. But when faced with no sick leave, unfair demotions, safety and privacy concerns, and racial discrimination, Query and her co-workers decide to organize and unionize the exotic dancers of the Lusty Lady.

Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.

This historical drama fictionalizes the events that surrounded the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc BlitzsteinÑa leftist labor musical first sponsored by the WPA Federal Theatre Project and later banned after the WPA cut the project. The film adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s, particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism among many intellectuals, artists, and workers.

Textile workers recall with pride the long- suppressed story of the General Textile Strike of 1934 when 500,000 Southern mill laborers walked off their jobs.

When Mr. Burns revokes the plant's dental plan, forcing Lisa to be fitted with cheap, ugly braces, Homer leads its union into going on strike.

This documentary reconstructs the two eventful months in 1968 that led to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It shows how Memphis's black community rallied behind the 65-day strike of 1,300 Memphis sanitation workers for a living wage, summed up by the slogan "I Am a Man." King joined their struggle to his growing nation-wide Poor People's Campaign. The film captures many of the most important tensions in US history: black vs. white, non-violence vs. violence, privilege vs. poverty, and grassroots mobilization vs. national politics.

Expose on the exploitation of workers in the Florida sugar cane industry

After General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors' chairman, Roger B. Smith.

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow African-Americans in the union, though many, including his best friend, view him as a sell-out.