Worker Movies

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

Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.

Numerous people are on subway trains running up and down the city center endlessly. There are people who run this decent space...

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...

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...

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

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...

Short film about the strike of the stonebreakers in Tandil, early 20th century.

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

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

16mm film (black and white, silent)

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

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

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

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?

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...

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...