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The Labor History includes the following titles:

A History of the European Working Class - Episode 2 - imageA History of the European Working Class - Episode 2

A look back at the emergence of the great insurgencies that shook Europe at the end of the century.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 52 minutes
A History of the European Working Class - Episode 3 - imageA History of the European Working Class - Episode 3

Europe has industrialized to the point that the war which breaks out in 1914 is also industrialized.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 52 minutes
A History of the European Working Class - Episode 4 - imageA History of the European Working Class - Episode 4

Has the working class disappeared today?

Icarus Films | 2020 | 52 minutes
A Time to Rise - imageA Time to Rise

An eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia.

Anand Patwardhan | 1981 | 40 minutes
An Injury To One - imageAn Injury To One

Reconstructs the long-forgotten murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and draws a connection between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 53 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
As Goes Janesville - imageAs Goes Janesville

As Goes Janesville follows two years in the lives of laid off workers and local leaders to tell the story of how an auto community brought to the brink reinvents itself amid America’s worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.

371 Productions | 2012 | 87 minutes | College, Adults
Bitter Money - imageBitter Money

Follows a handful of migrant factory workers, both at work where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day and in their off-hours, and as they hang around shabby dorms drinking, dreaming of home, worrying about getting paid, and trying to decide whether their jobs are worth keeping.

dGenerate Films | 2016 | 152 minutes
Brothers On The Line - imageBrothers On The Line

Narrated by Martin Sheen, Brothers On The Line is an award-winning documentary feature exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuther brothers — prolific union organizers who led an army of laborers into an epic struggle for social justice.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 81 minutes
China Blue - imageChina Blue

A clandestinely shot, deep-access account of how the clothes we buy are actually made.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 88 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adult
Clara Lemlich - imageClara Lemlich

The story of Clara Lemlich, a fledgling union organizer who launched the groundbreaking garment workers strike in 1909 in New York City.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 51 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult

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