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.

Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...

The early struggles of the working class are placed under a microscope in Plutocracy III: Class War,...

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

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

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

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

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and un...

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

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s ...

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

The documentary is an immersive chronicle of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021...

An in-depth analysis on the 40th Anniversary of the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie a...

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...

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

Disobedience tells the David vs. Goliath tale of front line leaders battling for a livable world. Fi...
Award-winning director Yoav Shamir (Defamation, Checkpoint) sets out on an entertaining and insightf...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...