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Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/7240/
82
/232/
75
/110/
4.3
/22626/
100
/22/
92
/186/
80
/5/
cc age 15+

Harlan County U.S.A. (1977)
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
poster
84
7.8
/1103/
71
/43/
73
/15/
4.0
/1749/
100
/13/
88
/19/

American Dream (1990)
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.5
/5772/
79
/160/
75
/153/
4.2
/54593/
93
/55/
81
/29/
77
/12/

Güeros (2014)
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
poster
Hulu
83
8.0
/245874/
76
/3528/
75
/2424/
3.7
/74819/
89
/112/
92
/2459/
79
/16/
cc age 12+

Gandhi (1982)
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
poster
82
7.7
/78831/
73
/1459/
74
/889/
4.0
/107898/
84
/51/
89
/2813/
81
/30/

Happiness (1998)
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
poster
79
7.7
/150109/
77
/4245/
76
/3980/
4.1
/308833/
85
/119/
89
/5379/
74
/34/
cc age 13+

Billy Elliot (2000)
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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Kanopy
80
76
7.6
/9309/
74
/242/
73
/238/
3.9
/22968/
100
/8/
82
/124/

Strike (1925)
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
poster
Hoopla
73
7.2
/3139/
67
/53/
67
/37/
3.5
/884/
75
/16/
87
/58/
cc age 15+

Some Mother's Son (1996)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
poster
The Roku Channel
73
7.1
/16505/
71
/406/
67
/317/
3.4
/8123/
80
/129/
75
/705/
65
/31/
cc age 16+

Made in Dagenham (2010)
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
70
7.3
/4428/
72
/119/
69
/92/
3.8
/7016/
100
/15/
81
/78/
74
/7/

Salt of the Earth (1954)
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
poster
70
6.6
/9883/
69
/165/
67
/192/
3.7
/9464/
79
/34/
67
/124/

The Funeral (1996)
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
poster
Kanopy
70
6.7
/5918/
67
/121/
62
/146/
3.6
/10690/
83
/54/
61
/60/
80
/21/

Goodbye First Love (2011)
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
68
7.3
/4475/
70
/69/
72
/58/
3.7
/3105/
100
/12/
78
/56/

This Happy Breed (1944)
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
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Netflix
67
65
6.6
/15792/
67
/343/
63
/251/
3.3
/8124/
83
/35/
59
/228/
65
/12/

Animal Factory (2000)
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
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Criterion Channel
72
64
6.9
/7182/
69
/126/
66
/180/
3.7
/13277/
78
/18/
77
/101/

Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
5.5
/342/
32
/4/
50
/8/
3.2
/237/
83
/81/

The Revolutionary (1970)
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
63
8.0
/3671/
75
/73/
75
/123/
4.1
/5532/
90
/10/
89
/18/

The Organizer (1963)
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
poster
72
62
7.3
/4072/
65
/89/
69
/86/
3.7
/3265/
81
/814/

Man of Iron (1981)
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
poster
82
61
8.4
/2148/
80
/130/
81
/68/
4.1
/4189/

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
poster
Hoopla
59
5.5
/6358/
61
/464/
60
/166/
2.9
/12467/
84
/55/
47
/36/
60
/10/
cc age 15+

The Power (2021)
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift, finding herself in a dark, near empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face both her own traumatic past and deepest fears.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
59
6.6
/4441/
64
/89/
63
/65/
3.2
/4121/
87
/15/
63
/138/

The Pajama Game (1957)
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
poster
76
59
7.6
/5152/
75
/200/
76
/299/
3.7
/3845/
80
/11/

The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
59
6.6
/2590/
68
/125/
60
/76/
4.0
/18991/
89
/35/
56
/24/
75
/10/

Born in Flames (1983)
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
poster
73
59
7.6
/4594/
75
/80/
70
/51/
3.6
/4350/

Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (2013)
Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to Nagaland on two motorcycles. The incidents that happen during this road adventure forms the film.
poster
56
6.6
/73520/
71
/2227/
66
/1035/
3.2
/35443/
41
/106/
66
/2990/
30
/32/
cc age 14+

The Replacements (2000)
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
53
6.5
/4097/
63
/60/
66
/67/
3.6
/11035/
50
/8/
62
/124/

Tout Va Bien (1972)
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
poster
64
53
6.2
/3814/
69
/119/
62
/62/
3.0
/1626/
71
/65/

Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
49
6.0
/4690/
68
/520/
58
/154/
2.8
/1736/
26
/23/
38
/33/
43
/15/

In Dubious Battle (2016)
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.
poster
73
46
7.3
/2626/
75
/20/
73
/26/
3.4
/1074/
80
/377/

The Valley of Decision (1945)
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
poster
61
45
6.4
/3730/
62
/66/
60
/35/
2.9
/3383/

CIA: Comrade In America (2017)
A young Aji Mathew is a communist who goes the whole nine yards for the ideologies he believes in. When the girl he loves leaves to the US out of the blue and her parents fix her wedding, Aji is left with just a fortnight to reach the country albeit with no passport or visa. How far he is willing to go for love forms the plot.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
43
5.6
/14699/
63
/646/
54
/208/
2.0
/2803/
12
/50/
69
/1664/
28
/19/

Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
39
6.7
/1813/
66
/48/
63
/86/
3.5
/6622/
68
/9/

A Room in Town (1982)
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
poster
73
39
7.2
/1817/
68
/25/
72
/33/
3.6
/643/
80
/5/
79
/10/

The Angry Silence (1960)
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
poster
Sun Nxt
68
38
7.1
/1501/
73
/35/
73
/26/
3.3
/946/
60

Punyalan Agarbattis (2013)
Punyalan Agarbattis is the story of Joy Thakkolkaran, a young entrepreuner from Thrissur. His new business venture 'Punyalan Agarbattis' involves manufacturing agarbattis from elephant dung. Fragrance and quality of his incense sticks aside, its mosquito repellant capabilities too have pleased those who tried the samples. However, Joy suddenly has a new set of people and problems as 'Punyalan Agarbattis' comes to a halt.
poster
63
36
6.7
/1225/
73
/76/
72
/37/
3.5
/3430/
36
/3/

Cart (2014)
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
35
6.9
/1036/
63
/22/
64
/19/
3.5
/917/
79
/121/

Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.
poster
66
33
5.8
/1641/
71
/60/
74
/54/
3.0
/524/

Mutiny on the Buses (1972)
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
32
6.0
/2113/
60
/41/
54
/31/
3.1
/466/
56
/117/

Wedding Wars (2006)
In the midst of organizing his brother Ben's wedding, Shel, a gay party planner, decides to go on strike for equal rights when he learns that Ben is behind a political speech against gay marriage.
poster
82
30
8.0
/178/
87
/7/
86
/6/
3.9
/1794/

The Day Iceland Stood Still (2025)
When 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job and out of their homes one morning in 1975, they brought their country to its knees and catapulted Iceland to the forefront of today's global fight for gender equality. Unexpectedly funny, laced with evocative animation and powerfully told by the women who lived it – this is the true story of 12 hours that launched a revolution.
poster
Criterion Channel
58
27
6.4
/724/
54
/15/
47
/32/
3.4
/1508/

Railway Station (1980)
Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.
poster
58
19
6.7
/880/
60
/17/
51
/15/
3.5
/1355/
44
/2/

When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
poster
74
16
7.7
/175/
80
/21/
67
/3/
3.6
/1258/

8/1 – A Democracia Resiste (2024)
Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced the coup threat of January 8, 2023, a recent trauma in the country's history and revealing something that still remains hidden.
poster
63
15
7.2
/460/
51
/11/
62
/15/
3.5
/535/

Borinage (1934)
Henri Storck and Joris Ivens’ landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932 miners’ strike in Belgium’s Borinage—evictions, hunger, and police repression—transforming outrage into a call for solidarity.
poster
69
15
7.5
/655/
71
/15/
61
/15/
3.5
/362/

The Sitter Downers (1937)
The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
poster
The Roku Channel
49
15
5.3
/999/
61
/56/
47
/28/
2.9
/200/
28
/12/

On Strike for Christmas (2010)
After years of making sure everything is perfect for her family, Joy Robertson is saying “enough,” and decides to go on strike for the Christmas season. If her husband, Stephen, and their kids want to have the perfect holiday, they will just have to organize it themselves.
poster
61
14
6.7
/332/
56
/8/
56
/18/
3.4
/432/

The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)
The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
poster
56
13
5.7
/465/
47
/11/
53
/23/
3.2
/219/

Lady Caliph (1970)
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
poster
Sun Nxt
66
12
6.9
/499/
64
/13/
67
/12/
3.2
/259/

Nirnayakam (2015)
Ajay (Asif Ali) is a student at National Defense Academy, Pune. His ambition is to become a soldier. Ajay’s father Sidharth Sankar is a well known lawyer in Kochi. When Ajay reaches Kochi, his father is dealing with a lawsuit and he needs the support of Ajay. Meanwhile, Saral (Malavika Mohanan) enters the life of Ajay. The resulting intriguing events are plotted in ‘Nirnayakam’.


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