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.

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

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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...

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces ...

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combin...

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The...

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing r...

A documentary recounting the kidnappings of British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Quebec Vice-P...

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuan...

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families s...
What happens when subcontracted precarious workers turn into podcast DJ. Subcontracted precarious wo...