With Franco dead, workers' struggles become more visible, such as the Laforsa strike, a steel mill in Cornellà de Llobregat. Lumbreras's conviction to understand the fight as an always collective action, without hierarchies, meant that she promoted among the workers his own filming, that they had autonomy, in no case imposing any speech (Filmoteca de Catalunya).
With Franco dead, workers' struggles become more visible, such as the Laforsa strike, a steel mill in Cornellà de Llobregat. Lumbreras's conviction to understand the fight as an always collective action, without hierarchies, meant that she promoted among the workers his own filming, that they had autonomy, in no case imposing any speech (Filmoteca de Catalunya).
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.
“บ็อกซ์คาร์” เบอร์ธา ทอมป์สัน หญิงสาวชั่วคราวในอาร์คันซอในช่วงภาวะเศรษฐกิจตกต่ำอันเต็มไปด้วยความรุนแรงในช่วงต้นทศวรรษปี ค.ศ. 1930 ได้พบกับ “บิ๊ก” บิล เชลลี สมาชิกสหภาพแรงงานผู้ก่อความไม่สงบ และทั้งสองร่วมมือกันต่อสู้กับสถาบันการรถไฟที่ทุจริต
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
ริกกี้ (คริส ฮิตเชน) และครอบครัวของเขาต่อสู้อย่างยากลำบากกับหนี้นับตั้งแต่วิกฤตทางการเงินในปี 2008 โอกาสในการกอบกู้กลับคืนมาพร้อมกับรถตู้คันใหม่เงางามและโอกาสในการบริหารแฟรนไชส์ในฐานะพนักงานขับรถส่งของ มันเป็นงานหนัก และงานของภรรยาในฐานะผู้ดูแลก็ไม่ใช่เรื่องง่าย หน่วยครอบครัวแข็งแกร่ง แต่เมื่อทั้งสองถูกดึงไปคนละทาง ทุกอย่างก็มาถึงจุดแตกหัก
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh weather and terrain. This young man will need a lot of courage and a strong will to complete this race.
Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.