County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the...

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on...

Follows the Bulgarian people's struggle for national independence in the period from 1875 to the Liberation from Otoman bondage.

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

When a local mining company dares to provide its workers a fair wage for a fair day's work, and lets its workers unionize, the kingdom's villainous...

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for...

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the...

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts....

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and...

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend...

In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never...

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications...

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its...

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times –...