This list of classic labor films is drawn from recommendations by experienced labor film festival organizers; if you have suggestions for additions, please submit them in the comments section below or email them to us at streetheat@dclabor.org

At The River I Stand (1993)
The Axe (Le Couperet) [2005]
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Burn! (1969)
Baran (2001)
Brassed Off (1996)
Black Girl (La Noire de…) (1965)
Bread and Roses (2000)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Cradle Will Rock (2000)
Chicken Run (2000)
Clerks (1994)
Chop Shop (2007)
The Company Men (2010)
For Man Must Work or The End of Work (2000)
The Full Monty (1997)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Great Pretenders, The (2007)
The Gronholm Method (El Método) [2005]
H-2 Worker (1990)
Happy Lands, The (2012)
Harlan County, USA (1976)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Hula Girls (2006)
Human Resources (1999)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
It’s a Free World (2007)
The Killing Floor (1985)
Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000)
Life and Debt (2001)
Man Push Cart (2005)
Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Modern Times (1936)
Matewan (1987)
9 to 5 (1980)
Native Land (1942)
The Navigators (2001)
Norma Rae (1979)
North Country (2005)
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007)
Nothing But A Man (1964)
The Organizer (I Compagni) [1963]
Office Space (1999)
Our Daily Bread  (1934)
Outsourced (2006)
Riffraff (1936)
Roger & Me (1989)
Reds (1981)
Silkwood (1983)
The Soul’s Haven (Il posto dell’anima) [2003]
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Strike (Stachka) [1925]
Time Out (2001)
Uprising of ’34 (1995)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
Work Hard, Play Hard (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré) [2006]
Workingman’s Death (2006)
The Young Karl Marx [Le Jeune Karl Marx; Der Junge Karl Marx)