Archive: Documentary

Other InformationDías de luto, días de lucha (2019)

In order to enable European supermarkets to sell fresh and cheap vegetables and fruits all year long, tens of thousands of migrants toil in the greenhouses in the south of Spain – for starvation wages. This haunting documentary by Aline…

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Other InformationSweeping Yerevan (2020)

Marina lives with her family in a housing estate in the satellite town of Charentsavan, a 40-minute drive from Yerevan. Marina works at night as a street sweeper in Yerevan's city centre. Her tools are brushwood brooms and waistcoats from…

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Other InformationGlory Days: Boston Colonial Packinghouse Workers Recall the Strike of 1954-55 (1988)

Glory Days is a documentary about Packinghouse Workers Local 11s strike in Boston in 1954-55. This strike, the longest in Massachusetts history, was one in which black and white workers and leaders participated, and in which a local came back…

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Other InformationThe Great Strike 1917 (2020)

To this day, the Great Strike of 1917 is still Australia’s largest industrial upheaval. The story of the Strike has long been dormant in archives, and is now re-told with original film footage from the era. 1h 9m Australia English…

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Other InformationRoom Without a View (2021)

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself. Roser Corella’s film zooms in on Beirut, where the upper class on a large scale hires maids from countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya and the…

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Other InformationDitching the Fear (2021)

Since 2008 in northern Italy, unusual things have been happening. Companies, the political class and the media are using the onset of the crisis to further undermine workers’ rights, which have been, up until now, crushed. On the other side,…

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Other InformationAir to Breathe ( Luft zum Atmen) (2020)

A film about a group of militant workers inside the Opel car plant in Bochum, Germany. The group was founded in 1972, initially with the help of revolutionaries from the 1968 movement. 1h 10m Germany German…

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Other InformationPlaneta Petrila (2016)

n Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive. 1h 20m 8.3 Romania Romanian…

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Other InformationFight Like Hell – The Testimony of Mother Jones (2023)

With the gap between the rich and poor growing wider by the day, the just and democratic society Mother Jones fought for is under attack. Her hour has come again. It is time that her story and the fierce struggles…

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Other InformationWorkingman’s Death (2005)

Deconstructs contemporary conceptions of work — by showcasing six of the most grueling and dangerous professions. Incredibly beautiful and moving, with virtually no dialogue or narration. 2h 2m 7.9 Austria German…

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