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Movies on Labor Unions and Labor Organizing
American Dream (1985-86 Hormel strike)
At the River I Stand (1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike; ML King, Jr.'s support and assassination)
Bread and Roses (1999 Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles)
Germinal (1880s the lives of French coal mining families)
Glory Days (1950s interracial organizing in Boston)
Grapes of Wrath (1930s Dust Bowl migration to California's agricultural strife)
Harlan County USA (1973 Brookside and Duke Power coal strike)
Matewan (1920 West Virginia coal strike)
Mean Things Happening (1930s southern tenant farmers and steel organizing)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin's 1936 comedy classic about modern industrial society)
Molly Maguires (1870s coal miner organizing)
Norma Rae (1970s North Carolina textile organizing)
Northern Lights (North Dakota organizing in the early 20th century)
Out at Work (workplace and union response to gay men and lesbians)
Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story (1989 Pittston strike)
The River Ran Red (1890s Homestead strike)
Roger & Me (1980s urban devastation resulting from auto factory migration)
Salt of the Earth (strikes in southwestern U.S.)
Silkwood (1974 chemical technician gathers evidence on nuclear plant safety)
10,000 Black Men Named George (1920s formation of Pullman porters union)
The Uprising of '34 (1934 general strike in southern textiles)
The Wobblies (International Workers of the World)
The Inheritance (immigrants and unionization, focus on Amalgamated Clothing Workers)
Union Maids (1930s women organizers in Chicago)
With Babies and Banners (militant CIO women)
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