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Silkwood

1983 · 2h 11m · R · Drama

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Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.

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Matewan

1987 · 2h 12m · PG-13 · Drama, History

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Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

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Boxcar Bertha

1972 · 1h 29m · R · Crime, Drama

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"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.

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Norma Rae

1979 · 1h 50m · PG · Drama

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Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

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2016 · 1h 28m · Drama

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Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

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The Organizer

1963 · 2h 10m · Comedy, Crime, Drama

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In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.

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Bread and Roses

2000 · 1h 50m · Comedy, Drama

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In Los Angeles, undocumented Mexican immigrant Maya finds work as a janitor through her sister, Rosa. However, as both work non-union, conditions are grim. After enduring abuse from her superiors, Maya is open to the pro-union rhetoric offered by organiser Sam Shapiro. Rosa, meanwhile, is far less interested in clashing with management, given the needs of her family, and a rift forms between the sisters.

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Heroes for Sale

1933 · 1h 12m · NR · Drama

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World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.

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Silkwood

Matewan

Boxcar Bertha

Norma Rae

7 Minutes

The Organizer

Bread and Roses

Heroes for Sale

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Silkwood

Matewan

Boxcar Bertha

Norma Rae

7 Minutes

The Organizer

Bread and Roses

Heroes for Sale

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