78m; Canada
Director: Robert Collison, Sturla Gunnarsson
Cast: Henry Ramer, Rod Andrew and Owen Beaver
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary on the 1984 contract negotiations between the Canadian branch of the UAW and General Motors.
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Final Offer (1985)
Finally Got the News (1970)
55m; U.S.
Director: Bird, Gessner, Lichtman, Louis
Synopsis: FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit.
Five Factories – Workers Control in Venezuela (2006)
81m; Venezuela
Director: Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler
Synopsis: Venezuelan workers worker democracy/takeover of factories.
Flame in the Streets (1961)
93m; Australia
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: John Mills, Sylvia Syms and Brenda De Banzie
Synopsis (IMDB): A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and his wife have a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that his only daughter intends to marry a West Indian.
The Flickering Flame (1997)
U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Liverpool dockworkers’ strike.
For A Six Hour Workday (2004)
20m; Argentina
Director: Grupo Alavio & MarieTrigona
Synopsis: Documents the efforts by Buenos Aires transit workers to re-introduce the 6 hour day after the military dictatorship had destroyed the labor conditions.
Fourth Battle of Winchester (1957)
16m; U.S.
Synopsis: Describes the circumstances which caused over 400 workers at the O’Sullivan Rubber Company in Winchester, VA, to strike on 5/13/56 to preserve their union.
Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980)
60m; U.S.
Director: Steven Fischler & Joel Sucher
Synopsis: Documentary of the Jewish Anarchists in the New York garment industry and their newspaper the Freie Arberiter Stimme.
Freedom Song (2000)
150m; U.S.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon and Vondie Curtis-Hall
Synopsis: HBO film based on the organizing of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in McComb, Mississippi and highlights the role of young people in the work
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