Όταν ο αδίστακτος μεγαλοξενοδόχος Γουίλι Μπανκ εξαπατάει τον Ρούμπεν Τίσκοφ, μέλος της συμμορίας του Όσεαν, ο τελευταίος ετοιμάζει την εκδίκησή του. Όλη η συμμορία καταστρώνει ένα απίστευτο σχέδιο για την παρεμπόδιση της επικείμενης βράβευσης του νέου ξενοδοχείου του Μπανκ με το περίφημο κολιέ πέντε διαμαντιών.
Μεατφορά στην οθόνη της απεργίας του 1968 στο εργοστάσιο αυτοκινήτων Ford Dagenham, όπου οι εργάτριες αποχώρησαν σε ένδειξη διαμαρτυρίας ενάντια στις σεξουαλικές διακρίσεις.
Δεκαετία του 1930, καταμεσής της οικονομικής ύφεσης. Σε μια κοιλάδα της Καλιφόρνιας, ξεσπάει διαμάχη ανάμεσα σε μετανάστες που εργάζονται στη συλλογή μήλων και την ένωση των αγροτών της περιοχής. Σε αυτήν εμπλέκεται και ο νεαρός Τζιμ Νόλαν, που ωριμάζει μέσα από τη σύγκρουση και μαθαίνει τι θα πει οργανωμένη εργασία στις καλλιέργειες. Θα γίνει ακτιβιστής και θα οργανώσει μια μεγάλη απεργία που θα αλλάξει τα δεδομένα.
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle
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.
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
Παρά τα αξιοσημείωτα κέρδη της εταιρίας Perrin, η διοίκηση αποφασίζει να κλείσει ένα από τα εργοστάσια της. Οι 1100 υπάλληλοι αποφασίζουν να πολεμήσουν για να σώσουν τη δουλειά τους.
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.
During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.
Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he has a big heart and when he and his wife win the jackpot of the national lottery. Antoine will invest his gain to try and safe the factory.
The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and funerals in order to survive and save enough money to shoot his first feature film. White, unemployed opera singer and Gruja's girlfriend, is trying to make money by singing opera arias from house to house. The story is about ruined factories and workers without someone to lead them to a better life.
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Boris Morev dreams of money and power, he’ll do everything to reach the top, including leaving his beloved Irina, to marry the daughter of the local tobacco factory owner. With the death of his father-in-law and the illness of his wife, Morev becomes the new owner of "Nicotiana" and rules with an iron fist, resulting in massive labour strikes and murder. He ropes Irina back into his life, first as a mistress and later as his second wife, but his ambitions still come first as he plans on emerging as the biggest tobacco seller once the war is over. Irina’s love for Boris is fading and she finds a lover in one of the Germans Boris is trying to strike a deal with. Set against the backdrop of World War II and communist partisans fighting against the Nazi-allied Bulgarian monarchy, the film is a screen adaptation of the Bulgarian classic novel "Tobacco" released in 1954.
Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, March 3rd, 1976. After several months of protests demanding decent working conditions, representatives of struggling workers call for a general strike. In the church of San Francisco, in the working class neighborhood of Zaramaga, thousands of workers fill the temple in assembly. Outside, many more people gather and, in the middle, about a hundred heavily armed police officers wait to act.
An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.
The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.