Worker Movies

It's the end of a workday. A man returns home. He's at the mercy of his thoughts and emotions. From this melancholy backdrop, a disturbing figure...

16mm film (black and white, silent)

Take a deep dive into the booming, scantily-clad barista coffee shop scene in Seattle where sex sells - your morning coffee. But behind the intrigue...

Get to know a little bit about Paulo Moreira, sign painter from the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte - MG, his hand painting techniques and the...

CARNY is an intimate, gritty and poetic adventure following the lives of 'carnys' - traveling fairground workers whose experiences are outside the...

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

Short documentary on female workers at school, made by a high school student.

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered...

This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in...

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was...

an eight-hour long experimental film/performance art piece in which filmmaker chandler pippin creates their own arbitrary form of service work and...

A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.

Clocking out weighs on the mind of one low level minimum wage food service employee as the age old struggle of customer vs cashier begins to take...

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from Sichuan in...

A Man having a mental breakdown and identity crisis because of the work, the stress of his wife and unboorn child, will he be able to bear all of it?

Filmed during the Salvador Allendes government, this documentary investigates the agitation of the country before the 1973 coup d'état, when...

In 1978, in Huron Park, Ontario, the women of Fleck Manufacturing walked off of the job and into the history books. Fighting for better wages, safer...