Films about the labor movement

1954 film by Elia Kazan

1941 film by John Ford

2000 film directed by Stephen Daldry

1940 film by John Ford

2005 film by Niki Caro

Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor union activist who investigated alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death in a car crash gave rise to a 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered

Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.

1924 film by Sergei Eisenstein

1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda

1949 film by Giuseppe De Santis

1979 film by Martin Ritt

1992 film by Danny DeVito

2014 film directed by Matthew Warchus

1980 film directed by Colin Higgins

Deewaar ( The Wall) is a 1975 Indian action crime film directed by Yash Chopra, from a story by Salim–Javed. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, and Amitabh Bachchan alongside an ensemble cast of Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi, Iftekhar, Madan Puri, Satyen Kappu and Manmohan Krishna. The music was composed by R. D. Burman, while cinematography and editing were handled by Kay Gee Koregaonkar and T. R. Mangeshkar-Pran Mehra. In the film, two impoverished brothers struggle to survive in the slums of Mumbai and eventually find themselves on opposing sides of the law. The film's title signifies th

1993 film by Claude Berri

1978 film by Norman Jewison

2000 film by Howard Deutch

1978 film by Paul Schrader

1972 film by Martin Scorsese

1963 film by Mario Monicelli

1954 film by Herbert Biberman

Newsies is a 1992 American historical musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega and written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White, it is loosely based on the New York City newsboys' strike of 1899. Featuring twelve original songs by Alan Menken with lyrics by Jack Feldman and an underscore by J. A. C. Redford, it stars Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret, and Robert Duvall.

1996 film by Mark Herman

1970 film by Martin Ritt

1971 film by Paul Newman

1983 film by Gregory Nava

2011 film directed by Robert Guédiguian

2018 film directed by Boots Riley

2010 film by Nigel Cole

2000 film by Ken Loach

2016 film by James Franco

1989 film by Uli Edel

1969 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg

1941 film by Sam Wood

1987 film by John Sayles

1933 film by Vsevolod Pudovkin

1960 film by Guy Green

1935 film by Michael Curtiz

2014 South Korean film directed by Boo Ji-young

1972 film by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin

1973 film by Hrishikesh Mukherjee

1970 film by Alberto Bevilacqua

2018 film directed by Stéphane Brizé

1976 film by Miguel Littín

1999 film by Laurent Cantet

1974 film by Héctor Olivera

1959 film directed by John Boulting

1971 film by Bo Widerberg

2001 British film directed by Ken Loach

1962 film by Hiroshi Teshigahara

1981 film by Adolfo Aristarain

1962 film

2014 film by Diego Luna

1987 film by Jay Russell

1974 film by Tapan Sinha

1942 film by Curtis Bernhardt

1984 film

2006 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff

1980 television film by Semyon Aranovich