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

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

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...

A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, W...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

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

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

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted dai...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...

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

The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Arg...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike f...

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

As part of a six-month investigation, The Times synchronized and mapped thousands of videos and poli...

An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 ...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...