Books and films

No Name Ceuta

No Name Ceuta is a documentary about migrants trapped at Ceuta, one of the most militarised and least visible borders in southern Europe. Filmed in Ceuta in January and February 2026, it follows migrants and activists from No Name Kitchen and shows the consequences of European border-control policies: barriers to international protection, administrative…

"Huelga en el fin del mundo

The historic metalworkers’ strike of May 2025: ten thousand workers brought production to a halt and stood their shifts in front of burning barrels to withstand nine degrees below zero. In those ten days that shook the island, they made it clear who truly operates the levers of the most powerful electronics hub in the country — and the southernmost in…

Die Mutigen 56 - Germany's longest strike

It was different for the employees. The workers did not want to put up with this unequal treatment anymore.

Het stof daalt! / The Dust Settles

Following 'Het water komt' (about Zeeland and the consequences of the North Sea Flood) and 'De aarde beeft' (about Groningen and the consequences of natural gas extraction), the history program Andere Tijden (NTR) presents a series about Limburg and the scars of the mining industry, fifty years after the closure of the last coal mine: 'Het stof vallen'.…

Bargaining Forward: The story of the 2021 CUPE Strike in New Brunswick

This documentary showcases the unity and resilience of 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick as they strike against wage suppression. It explores strategic mobilization and collective bargaining efforts by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), culminating in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks…

Nos hommes

One November morning, the mobile phones of Sarah, Frédérique, Ludivine, Lise and other women ring. A text message delivers the same news dozens of times: Prysmian-Draka, the factory where their partners manufacture fibre-optic cable, is going to close.

How crane operator is fighting for her rights

The immediate appearance of new residential complexes that emerge from the maze of green fences like mushrooms after the rain may no longer attract the attention of city dwellers. Yet, the people who build housing and create profits for developers through their work are even less visible.

Sejarah Gerakan Buruh Indonesia / History of the Indonesian Labor Movement

The history of the Indonesian labor movement from the Dutch colonial period (1870) to 2000. This film explores the emergence of the working class, how workers built their organizations, the victories of the labor movement during the Independence era, the destruction of the labor movement under Suharto’s dictatorship, and workers’ resistance in the 1990s.

¡Sí se puede!' - Sindicalismo en Colombia

The documentary "'¡Sí se puede!'" (2023) exposes the harsh reality of Colombia, the world's most dangerous country for activists. It follows the perilous struggles of oil worker Moisés Báron and domestic workers Nohelia Mendoza and Nellys Simarra, who face political violence and extreme inequality.

The Riot 1907 / Sulis 1907

In the early 1900s, Sulitjelma Gruber was the second largest industrial company in Norway. The living conditions for the mining workers were very primitive, working conditions hard and harmful to health.

Drop by drop — there will be a wave!

A film about the everyday work of activists in the "Be Like Nina" union movement. The movement was created after Nina Kozlovskaya wrote on Facebook about working conditions.

UPS Strike: Lessons from '97

The story of the Teamsters’ successful strike at UPS in 1997.

The Loud Spring: Together out of the Climate Crisis / Der laute Frühling: Gemeinsam aus der Klimakrise

A documentary and animated film about the climate crisis and the political power of workers. It connects climate activism with strikes, trade-union organizing and workers’ self-organization, asking how people can build the power needed for a profound social transformation beyond green capitalism.

Enola Holmes 2

Enola opens her own detective agency, but struggles to get clients unlike her famous detective brother Sherlock Holmes. A factory girl named Bessie asks Enola to help find her missing sister Sarah Chapman, labor organizer.

The 1934 Waterfront Strike: Solidarity on the Docks

Bel Karper and Adkotürk Workers' Strike Diar

They entered into a struggle shoulder to shoulder with their women and men. They waved the flag of Tekgıda-İş Union in Çorlu and Çerkezköy, the most important worker basins of Turkey.

1968: a Greve de Contagem / 1968: The Counting Strike

In 2018, fifty years had passed since the first workers' strike during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). Through testimonies from historians, researchers, and workers who participated in this historic strike in the Industrial City of Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, the documentary reconstructs this episode, which continued…

Air to Breathe: 40 Years of Opposition at Opel in Bochum / Luft zum Atmen: 40 Jahre Opposition bei Opel in Bochum

In 1972, several workers and revolutionaries at Opel Bochum founded the Group of Oppositional Trade Unionists (GoG). The GoG existed for more than forty years and strengthened the spirit of resistance among the Bochum workforce through its radical workplace organizing.

Resistance, patience, struggle / Direnç, Sabır, Mücadele!

The film present the story of resistance, patience and struggle to our audience as solidarity in this process where trade union rights are under intense attack. In our documentary about the trade union struggle given by workers from 5 different cities and different sectors, the determination and transformation of the insurgents are reflected.

Yellow helmut / Sarı Baret

Miners… Miners with the yellow chair, lighthouse, digging, shovel and of course labor… We heard their name with disasters and business murders. We witnessed their struggles to the tooth.

El Caso Fischer-Bufano

The film is based on the kidnapping and murder, by a death squad of the Triple A (Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance), of young labor activists Jorge Fischer and Miguel Angel Bufano, aged 25 and 23 respectively, in December 1974. Forty Bullets, by narrating the life stories of these socialist activists (who were also close friends), aims to help us…

Prendre le large / Catch the Wind

Edith, a 45-year-old textile worker, sees her life overturned by a restructuring plan. Rather than face unemployment, she is the only employee to accept a transfer to the company’s relocated factory in Tangier, Morocco, where she must confront the harsh reality of offshoring, unfamiliar working conditions and a new social environment.

The Nothing Factory / La fábrica de nada

One night, a group of workers realizes that management is stealing machinery and materials from their own factory. When they get ready to organize the equipment and production themselves, they are ordered to do nothing, as retaliation, while negotiations for their dismissal are underway.

Thank you, boss! / Merci patron!

Jocelyne and Serge Klur worked at a factory near Valenciennes that produced Kenzo clothing for the LVMH group. After production was relocated to Poland, the couple lost their jobs, fell into debt, and faced losing their home.

Ditching the Fear: The Logistics Workers’ Movement in Italy / Die Angst wegschmeißen: Die Bewegung der Logistikarbeiter_innen in Italien

Since 2008, northern Italy has been the scene of extraordinary events. Companies, politicians and the media are using the crisis to further erode workers’ already fragile rights.

Lotta senza classe (A Classless Struggle)

Three different ways of being metalworkers. Three different ways of dealing with the crisis, three different life prospects.

Occupy, Resist, Produce – RiMaflow / Occupare, Resistere, Produrre – RiMaflow

The film follows the workers of RiMaflow, a former Maflow car-parts plant in Trezzano sul Naviglio near Milan. After the factory was closed following a fraudulent bankruptcy, former workers occupied the plant and began to reinvent it as a self-managed project.

Miners shot down

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more.

Labor's Turning Point: 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike

Full-length documentary on the 1934 Truckers Strikes that transformed Minneapolis into a union town and prompted passage of the labor law that made collective bargaining government policy.

Zhanaozen Diary

The movie depicts the events that followed the bloody suppression of the strike. In 2011, I was an observer for the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights and lived with the oil workers in the central square of Zhanaozen, and later attended the trials," says Galym Ageleuov.