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.

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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...

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

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d...
Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

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