1h 47m
Bright and passionate, Eleanor links feminism and socialism. Partaking in workers’ battles, she fights for women’s rights and against child labor. Meeting Edward Aveling in 1883, her life is overtaken by a tragic love affair
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“L’Internationale” by Downtown Boys, from the film MISS MARX
Posted by Labor Heritage Foundation on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Collective Bargaining, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women
1h 20m
The story of a group of young people who created history’s only collectively run, worker’s self managed, anti-profit, kosher restaurant and who, even after the restaurant closed, continued to live according to their early idealism. Many of their adult children are dedicated their lives to similar idealistic goals.
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Posted by Labor Heritage Foundation on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Cities-Urban, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Farm & Food, Self-Employed/Freelance
1h 33m
In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
‘Unrest’ Review: The Times Are Not A-Changin’
Posted by Labor Heritage Foundation on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Automation, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Experimental, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Working Class
John Gianvito assembles Keller’s political addresses and writings into a portrait of a warrior for social justice and a passionate, insightful proselytizer of Marxist thought.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13152604/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Posted by Labor Film Database on January 14, 2023 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Labor History, Women
71 mins | 2021
Director: Tomasz Wolski
Producer: Anna Gawlita
Subtitle: English
In the days leading up to Christmas 1970, the Polish government raised the prices of food and consumer goods, prompting worker strikes and public demonstrations. In response, the Communist regime ordered the police and military to intervene and suppress the protests, which resulted in violent clashes, thousands of arrests, and the deaths of over 40 demonstrators. Director Tomasz Wolski brings the tragic sequence of decisions and their ramifications to life in a compelling and stylized pastiche of archival footage, stop-motion animation, puppetry, and recordings of government officials’ conversations. Bold and bracing, the film interweaves multiple visual styles and stories to suspenseful effect as the tension between the public and the government unfolds in black-and-white streets and moody dioramas. With chilling contemporary resonances, 1970 captures the politics of power and intimidation—how both are deployed by authority figures when they are confronted by the forces of civil unrest and a fear of their own citizens. TM
Posted by Labor Film Database on January 14, 2023 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Labor History
“A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie”
Posted by Labor Film Database on January 14, 2023 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Self-Employed/Freelance, Women
R; 2h 27m
A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
‘Triangle of Sadness’ satirizes the 0.01 percent, with queasy glee
Triangle of Sadness Is as Absurd as 21st-Century Capitalism Is
Posted by Labor Film Database on January 14, 2023 in 2025 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Philosophy, Service Workers, Working Class
Barcelona blog devoted to social and environmental documentaries.
“We have just started a series of posts about films that deal with the question of work in capitalism. We think these films can help to build up the working class conscience so sorely needed nowadays. Unless there is a new, global working class consciousness, underprivileged classes (increasingly extended) are doomed to be crushed by the sheer destructive power of capitalism. With this post we begin an overview of documentary and fiction films that can help to build up, through denunciation and example, that conscience and solidarity more needed than ever.”
Posted by Labor Film Database on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Arts/Culture, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Working Class
2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 2h 43m
Migrants come to the city of East China looking for a better life, but instead find few opportunities and poor living conditions that create violence and oppression.
Initial release: September 9, 2016
Director: Wang Bing
Screenplay: Wang Bing
Cast: Ling Ling, Huang Lei
Awards: Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay
Nominations: Orizzonti Award for Best Actor, Orizzonti Award for Best Actress
‘Bitter Money’ and ‘Bitter Rice’: Migrant Workers Face Toil and Trouble
Posted by Labor Film Database on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Cities-Urban, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers
2018 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 36m
“System Error” seeks answers to the great contradictions of our time and makes it clear why, despite everything, everything continues as before. The film shows the world from the perspective of people fascinated by the possibilities of capitalism. Whether European financial strategists, American hedge fund managers or Brazilian meat producers: They cannot, must not or do not even want to imagine a world without an expanding economy.
A humorous personal and essay film addressing architecture, habitation, space, density, xenophobia, gentrification and urban development. A power struggle between mountain peasants who have been raising milk cows on common land and a village bailiff trying to gain power driving them off the land.
Initial release: May 10, 2018 (Germany)
Director: Florian Opitz
Screenplay: Florian Opitz
Cinematography: Andy Lehmann
Producers: Florian Opitz, Jan Krüger
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Posted by Labor Film Database on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Farm & Food, Finance, Global Economy, Philosophy, Technology
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