A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, whil...

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d...