22m; South Korea
Director: Musgtaque Ahmed
Synopsis: Struggle of Bangladeshi and Nepali workers in South Korea and the effects of the government crackdown on these immigrant workers.
Category Archives: Working Class
The Deserter (1933)
105m; USSR
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast: Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin and Aleksandr Chistyakov
Synopsis (IMDB): A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country
The Detroit Model (1980)
45m; U.S.
Director: Alan Levin
Synopsis: Study of the decline of the US auto industry in the 1970s and early 80s.
Dias de Santiago (2004)
83m; Peru
Director: Josué Méndez
Cast: Pietro Sibille, Milagros Vidal and Marisela Puicón
Synopsis: Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Directions: The Fight Against Black Monday (1978)
27m; U.S.
Director: Marc Siegel
Synopsis: Story of 5,000 steelworkers who lost their jobs when Lykes Corporation closed the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. The plant reopened under worker-community ownership.
Dirt (2003)
91m; U.S.
Director: Nancy Savoca
Cast: Julieta Ortiz, Deborah Hedwall and John Tormey
Synopsis (IMDB): Dolores is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who works as a housemaid in New York City. Under the constant fear of likely deportation, she wonders whether she should return to her country. Her decision to leave is strengthened when her life is suddenly complicated by a series of unfortunate events.
Dirty Work (2004)
Director: David Sampliner & Tim Nackashi
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentarians David Sampliner & Tim Nackashi follow three men with odd, potentially unpleasant careers — a bull semen collector, a sewage tank pumper, and an embalmer.
Distant Lives (2003)
105m; Germany
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Cast: Andrzej Górak, Anna Yanovskaya and Sergey Frolov
Synopsis (IMDB): This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Russians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a communion dress, and so on
Do Higher Wages Cause Higher Prices? (1957)
15m; U.S.
Director: US Department of Education in association with the AFL-CIO Department of Research
The Dollmaker (1984)
150m; U.S.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Jane Fonda, Mike Bacarella, Etel Billig and Phyllis Boyens
Synopsis (IMDB): Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels, a pioneer woman and the mother of five from the Kentucky hills who is forced to uproot her children to follow her husband Clovis (Levon Helm) to Detroit when he finds work during World War II. One setback follows another and shattering tragedy strikes the family. It’s all up to Gertie to find new strength, courage and determination to keep her family together and strong.
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