Documentary
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker
The War You and I
Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story
Main basse sur l'énergie
The Flickering Flame
For Twenty Cents A Day
Dream Factory
Island Shunters
Blueberry Waggle Dance
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Justice in the Coalfields
The Monopoly of Violence
Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
Union
Feedback
Ecos de huelga
Conversations Between Shifts
Crude Oil
America Today
SIMILAR MOVIES
Open files
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1975
A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker
IMDB 8 | Jun , 1975
The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.The War You and I
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2010
With the unexpected dismissal of 2045 workers, the strike by Ssangyong employees has received the most public support and attention since the IMF. It was an intense period inside and outside the factory.Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story dives deep into the lives beyond the court of the next generation of basketball luminaries, Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike, and Breanna Stewart, as well as WNBA legend, Sheryl Swoopes. From intense off-season routines to the intricacies of family dynamics to navigating the politics of women's sports, this documentary offers viewers a rare, all-encompassing look at the athletes as holistic individuals.Main basse sur l'énergie
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2018
The Flickering Flame
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1996
Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at the TUC conference.For Twenty Cents A Day
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1979
A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.Dream Factory
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2011
It's been more than 1,000 days since the workers of Cort/Cortek Guitar begun a struggle after the company abruptly closed down. Meanwhile, musicians performed for the workers so many people are aware of the company's injustice, but the company has yet to respond. The workers visit international instrument expositions all around the world, meet other guitar companies such as Fender and Ibanez who subcontract with Cort, and share the struggle with them. The workers also align with musicians in Japan and the USA. They achieve international solidarity through music.Island Shunters
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1977
Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.Blueberry Waggle Dance
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.The Walls Come Tumbling Down
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1975
A 1975 documentary short about a strike being conducted by public-housing residents in St. Louis.Justice in the Coalfields
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1995
This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that followed the expiration of their contract and Pittston's termination of the medical benefits of 1,500 pensioners, widows, and disabled miners.The Monopoly of Violence
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2020
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In this documentary, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2020
In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last paychecks bounced. The miners retaliated by blocking a train full of coal, camping out on the coal tracks for weeks. Queer regional organizers made their way to the encampment to support the miners. The encampment became a place for community gathering and mutual aid distribution. Sarah Moyer, a film maker living in Kentucky, also made their way to the encampment and filmed this short documentary on the blockade. (Summary from Queer Appalachia)Union
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2024
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.Feedback
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
A documentary about teachers' strikes in Iceland in the latter half of the 20th century with a special focus on 1995.Ecos de huelga
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2021
Conversations Between Shifts
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and Illinois Nurses Association union meetings, Jeanette navigates what it means to be a nurse and a human during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.Crude Oil
IMDB 7.2 | Jan , 2008
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.America Today
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1934
One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11 minutes. Skillfully edited, the picture captures a panorama of international events centered on the labor movement. Scenes include Mussolini, Hitler and FDR preparing for war, Nazi soldiers persecuting German Jews, a political strike in Paris, the Scottsboro demonstration in Washington, DC, police violence against striking steelworkers in Pennsylvania and union members stopping scab workers from delivering milk during a dairy farmers strike in Wisconsin. Under the direction of pioneering documentarian Leo Hurwitz, the images are edited together to create a powerful image of a world that, in his view, desperately needed radical change.