Here we've displayed a list of the best Labor Strike films : The Grapes of Wrath(1940), How Green Was My Valley(1941), Comrades(1986), Man of Iron(1981), I'm All Right, Jack(1960), Black Fury(1935), The Little Minister(1934), Monkeys, Go Home!(1967), The Revolutionary(1970) ... ...
Drama
USA
1940
129 Minutes
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson O.Z. Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully
ex-convict sharecropper priest uncle grandfather grandmother bleak disheartening emotional oklahoma california family historical events american dream farming poverty labor strike pursuit escape quest
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Drama
USA
1941
118 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Maureen O'Hara Roddy McDowall Donald Crisp Anna Lee John Loder Sara Allgood Barry Fitzgerald Patric Knowles Rhys Williams Evan S. Evans
father mother brother sister coal miner preacher emotional melodramatic wales small town family coal mining labor strike love triangle growing up quest forbidden love victorian era
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Drama, History
UK
1986
160 Minutes
Robin Soans William Gaminara Philip Davis Robert Stevens Michael Hordern
minister landowner laborer organizer protester farmer fascinating passionate rousing emotional tolpuddle, england farm small town labor strike tolpuddle martyrs agriculture imprisonment worker's rights political activism sacrifice
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Drama, History
Poland
1981
153 Minutes
Jerzy Radziwilowicz Krystyna Janda Marian Opania Irene Byrska Boguslaw Linda Wieslawa Kosmalska Andrzej Seweryn Krzysztof Janczar Boguslaw Sobczuk Frantiszek Trzeciak
reporter filmmaker laborer political boss striker union boss confident striking gdansk, poland shipyard prison office television studio labor strike communism corruption polish solidarity movement political intrigue pursuit rivalry
A few years after the events of Czlowiek z marmuru (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
Comedy
UK
1960
104 Minutes
Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers Terry-Thomas Richard Attenborough Margaret Rutherford Dennis Price Irene Handl Miles Malleson Liz Fraser
assembly line worker communist industrialist businessperson cheeky lighthearted witty factory england family home wealth labor strike deception quest 1960s
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Drama
USA
1935
95 Minutes
Paul Muni Karen Morley William Gargan Barton MacLane John Qualen J. Carrol Naish Vince Barnett Henry O'Neill Tully Marshall Mae Marsh Sara Haden
miner best friend union boss scab thug melodramatic rousing fiery pennsylvania mine labor strike worker's rights friendship courage immigration rivalry quest revenge rise 1930s
An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
Romance
USA
1934
110 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn John Beal Donald Crisp Alan Hale Lumsden Hare Andy Clyde Beryl Mercer Billy Watson Dorothy Stickney Mary Gordon
reverend gypsy lord business owner employee villager charming melodramatic scotland village church street factory infatuation class conflict labor strike secret identity deception religion forbidden love
In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror ... See full summary »
Kids & Family, Romance
USA
1967
89 Minutes
american maid priest laborer monkey impostor madcap lighthearted france farm village inheritance human-animal friendship farming labor strike new town love transformation quest 1960s
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1970
100 Minutes
Jon Voight Jennifer Salt Seymour Cassel Robert Duvall Collin Wilcox Paxton Elliott Sullivan Warren Stanhope
college student political boss radical girlfriend hippie terrorist fiery passionate uneasy melodramatic united kingdom printing plant apartment street political unrest student radicals labor strike terrorism draft mentorship
A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.