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1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,778 | Gross: $0.06M
2. Full Time (2021)
88 min | Drama
Just when Julie finally gets an interview for a job that will let her raise her children better, she runs into a national transportation strike.
Director: Eric Gravel | Stars: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi
Votes: 5,330
3. Chicken for Linda! (2023)
73 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
A loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. She sets off to make a chicken with peppers, even though she doesn't know how to cook.
Directors: Sébastien Laudenbach, Chiara Malta | Stars: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Estéban
Votes: 411
4. The Colour Room (2021)
112 min | Drama
Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England.
Director: Claire McCarthy | Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode, Kerry Fox, Darci Shaw
Votes: 1,669
5. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,372
6. The Escape (1978)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset
Votes: 1,392
7. L'an 01 (1973)
90 min | Comedy
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop ... See full summary »
Directors: Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch | Stars: Véronique Alain, Romain Bouteille, François Béranger, Cabu
Votes: 612
8. A Handful of Love (1974)
142 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1909: A working-class girl is refused marriage by her politically committed boyfriend. As a result she becomes a maid in a rich household and the mistress of the master.
Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Anita Ekström, Gösta Bredefeldt, Ingrid Thulin, Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Votes: 139
9. Gandhi, My Father (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
The account of troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.
Director: Feroz Abbas Khan | Stars: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shah, Bhoomika Chawla
Votes: 1,731 | Gross: $0.24M
10. The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
80 min | Documentary, History
This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández, Ernesto Malbran
Votes: 1,043
11. Bringing Down a Dictator (2002 TV Movie)
TV-G | 56 min | Documentary
A student group called Otpor! ("Resistance!" in Serbian) forms part of the nonviolent opposition movement that toppled the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
Director: Steve York | Stars: Shahla Arasteh, Zoran Djindjic, Robert Helvey, Vojislav Kostunica
Votes: 92
12. Mai 68 (1974)
190 min | Documentary
Montage of archive images and interviews with actors of the May 1968 events.
Directors: Jérôme Kanapa, Gudie Lawaetz | Stars: Maurice Clavel, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Christian Fouchet, Alain Geismar
13. 68 (2008 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Edouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 66
14. Mai 68, Un étrange printemps (2018)
Documentary
May 1968: France is on the brink of a revolution. This documentary takes those being interviewed back in time and highlights the complexities of memory as many of those who participated in 1968 explain their thoughts of those events today.
Director: Dominique Beaux | Stars: Dominique Beaux, Jean-Baptiste Evette, Maurice Grimaud, Edouard Balladur
15. Secessio (2018)
18 min | Animation, Short, History
An adaptation of an ancient story of a mass general strike, told via a present-day crowd-modeling and crowd-control software. While showing the "artificial-stupidity" of technologies used ... See full summary »
Director: Byron Peters | Stars: Byron Peters, Aisha Ricketts
16. Prairie Fire: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 (1999 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
On May 15, 1919, the largest labour uprising in Canadian history saw 25,000 people, virtually every working man and woman in Canada's third largest city, walk off their jobs. Winnipeg was paralyzed. The country was in shock and in fear.
Director: Audrey Mehler | Star: Ann Medina
17. 14 dni. Prowokacja bydgoska (2008)
54 min | Documentary
Directors: Grzegorz Eberhardt, Jacek Petrycki
18. Que deviendront-ils? N° 12 (1996 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Fresnel | Stars: Franck Crudo, Philippe Descout, Valérie Goupil, Ingrid
19. Arsena Jorjiashvili (1921)
50 min | Action, Adventure
Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
Director: Ivane Perestiani | Stars: Mikheil Chiaureli, Ivane Perestiani, Alisa Kikodze, Nino Dolidze
Votes: 67
21.
The House of Eliott (1991–1994)
Episode:
Episode #2.9
(1992)
52 min | Drama
Elizabeth tells Bea - who has moved in with Evie, following her separation from Jack - that she will never give Alexander a divorce but Alexander himself tells Evie that he intends to ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Aden Gillett, Rupert Frazer
Votes: 28
22.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode:
The Nine Days Wonder
(1975)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama
The entire household comes together when a General Strike is called throughout Britain in May 1926
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Simon Williams, Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton
Votes: 78
23.
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Episode:
The Unseen Hook
(1981)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Romance
Charles returns to London in the Spring of 1926 during the General Strike and joins the Defense Corps which ensures the delivery of essential supplies. He meets up with Boy Mulcaster and ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge | Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Gielgud, Raymond Mason, Jeremy Sinden
Votes: 172
24.
Princess Daisy (1983– )
Episode:
Part 2
(1983)
Drama, Romance
Daisy studies in America to escape her lecherous half-brother, where she is discovered, becomes a celebrated model and falls in love. But Ram is still obsessed with her, and will stop at nothing to get her back.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Paul Michael Glaser, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Urich
25.
To Serve Them All My Days (1980–1981)
Episode:
Part Six
(1980)
Drama
David is devastated by the death of Beth and the twins, and contemplates leaving Bamfylde for good. Years later, David discovers Carter has been calling his house the Kremlin and demands an... See full summary »
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: John Duttine, Frank Middlemass, Alan MacNaughtan, Patricia Lawrence
Votes: 16
26.
The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Episode:
Afternoon at Ascot
(1967)
50 min | Drama, Romance
Fleur and Jon meet again after 7 years when she stops in at her Aunt Winifred's, purportedly to check the strike's canteen accounts, but really to see him. She invites Winifred, Holly ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Martin Jarvis, Maggie Jones, Suzanne Neve
Votes: 23
27.
The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Episode:
Strike
(1967)
Drama, Romance
Having lost her court case, Marjorie Ferrar turns to her grandfather to help settle her debts. He sets conditions however. With her court case case over, Fleur realizes that Michael's ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Eric Porter, Nicholas Pennell, Susan Hampshire, Caroline Blakiston
Votes: 22
28.
The Supersizers Go... (2007–2009)
Episode:
The Twenties
(2009)
History
The Supersizers look back at the food culture of the 1920's.
Stars: Giles Coren, Sue Perkins, Allegra McEvedy, Roy Marsden
Votes: 15
29.
The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode:
America's Unofficial Religion - The War on an Idea
(2015)
Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Stars: Jared Ball, Brian Becker, Abby Martin
Votes: 15