Celebrate Labor Day with These Great Films!

 If you find yourself at home this Labor Day weekend, we’ve got a great lineup of labor films to check out. Many are not just great films about workers, but great films on their own, with terrific acting, directing, and more. And with movies so easy to watch nowadays with on-demand, these films are just a few clicks away.

9 to 5 (1980) 

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him. 

10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)

Union activist Asa Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the black porters of the Pullman Rail Company in 1920s America. 

American Dream (1990)

Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. 

American Factory (2019)

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. 

Bread and Roses (2000)

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building and fight for the right to unionize. 

Cesar Chavez (2014)

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. 

The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead. 

The Killing Floor (1984)

A poor black Southerner travels to Chicago to work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. 

Harlan County, USA (1976)

A heartbreaking record of the 13-month struggle between a community and a corporation. 

Hoffa (1992) 

The story of American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa.

Matewan (1987) 

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. 

The Molly Maguires (1970)

In 1876 Pennsylvania, a group of Irish immigrant coal miners begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment. 

Newsies (1992)

Loosely based on the New York City Newsboys' Strike of 1899. 

Norma Rae(1970)

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. 

Salt of the Earth (1954)

Workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and the resolve of their wives, mothers and daughters, that they eventually triumph. 

Silkwood (1983)

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant. 

The Wobblies (1979)

Investigates a nation torn by corporate greed and the rift between industry and the workers in the field and factory.