Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "union-organizer"

1. The Great Debaters (2007)

PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker

Votes: 62,871 | Gross: $30.23M

2. Norma Rae (1979)

PG | 114 min | Drama

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

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle

Votes: 12,841 | Gross: $22.23M

3. Boxcar Bertha (1972)

R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey

Votes: 10,915

4. The Last Tycoon (1976)

PG | 123 min | Drama, Romance

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau

Votes: 9,590 | Gross: $1.82M

5. F.I.S.T. (1978)

PG | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 8,748 | Gross: $20.39M

6. Homefront (1991–1993)

60 min | Drama, History, Romance

World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.

Stars: Kyle Chandler, Sammi Davis, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy

Votes: 1,406

7. Cairo Station (1958)

Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama

A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi

Votes: 5,355

8. Bread and Roses (2000)

R | 110 min | Drama

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

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee

Votes: 6,073 | Gross: $0.53M

9. Come See the Paradise (1990)

R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi

Votes: 3,057 | Gross: $0.85M

10. Salt of the Earth (1954)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History

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

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer

Votes: 4,045

11. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis

Votes: 8,975

12. Cesar Chavez (2014)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama

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

Director: Diego Luna | Stars: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, John Malkovich

Votes: 3,621 | Gross: $5.55M

13. I Witness (2003)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia de Rossi, Clifton Collins Jr.

Votes: 1,584

14. Harlan County War (2000 TV Movie)

104 min | Drama

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.

Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson

Votes: 621

15. Faubourg 36 (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Music, Musical

When Chansonia, a nightclub, is shut down by the landlord, the stage manager Pigoil is forced to look for a new job. He finds hope when he discovers a young woman with a lovely singing voice.

Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder

Votes: 2,935 | Gross: $0.85M

16. 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Drama

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

Director: Robert Townsend | Stars: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Brock Peters

Votes: 360

17. Cart (2014)

110 min | Drama

The employees of a big-box discount retailer band together when the contract workers are summarily laid off.

Director: Ji-young Boo | Stars: Yum Jung-ah, Moon Jeong-Hee, Kim Yeong-ae, Do Kyung-soo

Votes: 1,142

18. Spiked (I) (2021)

91 min | Drama

When the murder of a migrant worker shakes a southwest border town to its core, the feud between a newspaper owner and the chief of police leads to the blurring of the truth and a dirty fight for justice.

Director: Juan Martinez Vera | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Wendy Makkena, Deirdre Lovejoy, Danay Garcia

Votes: 147

19. The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)

Approved | 96 min | Drama

Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray Hamilton

Votes: 404

20. Beggars in Ermine (1934)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness, Henry B. Walthall, Jameson Thomas

Votes: 227

21. Dixie: Changing Habits (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Dixie is caught operating a whore house, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?

Director: George Englund | Stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth McMillan, John Considine

Votes: 92

22. Sakada (1976)

Drama

The inner workings of a family headed by a union organizer are revealed when his body is brought back to his hometown for burial. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field ... See full summary »

Director: Behn Cervantes | Stars: Robert Arevalo, Hilda Koronel, Pancho Magalona, Bembol Roco

Votes: 13

23. The Equalizer (1985–1989)
Episode: Wash-Up (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two window-washers who want to form a union ask for McCall's help when they are threatened by their murderous employer. Meanwhile, McCall's housekeeper moves into his townhouse temporarily for a few days with her two young sons in tow.

Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Edward Woodward, Robert Davi, Yvonne Wilder, Bill Cwikowski

Votes: 99

24. Tales of the South Seas (1998–2000)
Episode: The Rabblerouser (2000)

Adventure

A woman named Sarah Blanohard arrives in Matavai. Lavinia befriends her and feels great respect and admiration for her, although she is troubled by Grief's reaction to her.

Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: William Snow, Rene Naufahu, Rachel Blakely, Rowena King

25. Superstore (2015–2021)
Episode: Sandra's Fight (2019)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy

Sandra's talk of unionization catches the ear of Corporate who are looking to close down a Cloud 9 store; now that everyone knows he's responsible for Dina's missing birds, Garrett tries to prove to his co-workers that he's a good person.

Director: America Ferrera | Stars: America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn

Votes: 721

26. Superstore (2015–2021)
Episode: Forced Hire (2019)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy

When Amy hires Dina's nemesis Colleen, Dina blackmails Garrett into making Colleen's life a living hell. Jonah is forced to befriend Marcus in order to unionize the warehouse guys.

Director: Victor Nelli Jr. | Stars: America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn

Votes: 1,164

27. Superstore (2015–2021)
Episode: Trick-or-Treat (2019)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy

With the new district manager set to visit, Amy amps up the store's Halloween spirit; Kelly helps Jonah with unionization; Cheyenne and Mateo suspect Dina could be the local serial killer; Glenn is terrified of a haunted house attraction.

Director: Heather Jack | Stars: America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn

Votes: 1,070

28. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Let Us Ask the Maiden (2009)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a young Jewish man dies suddenly during prayers, Dr. Ogden suspects arsenic poisoning and concludes that others may be falling victim to a poisoner.

Director: Harvey Crossland | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 321

29. Johnny Midnight (1960)
Episode: Romeo and Julie (1960)

30 min | Crime, Drama

A union organizer is murdered by a mobster. Midnight must nab the killer before the victim's hot-headed brother takes justice into his own hands and delivers a double-tragedy to their aged father.

Director: John English | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Stanley Clements, Lisa Montell, Ernest Sarracino

30. Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs (2012– )
Episode: Class War (2012)

Documentary, History

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Director: Hugo Macgregor | Stars: Pamela Cox, Roy Hattersley, Peter Higginbotham, Linda Huckle

31. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Mine Wars (2016)

TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Efforts of the United Mine Workers, led by Mother Jones, to organize coal miners in southern West Virginia at the beginning of the 20th century leads to violence and insurrection.

Director: Randall MacLowry | Stars: Michael Murphy, James Robert Green, Doug Estepp, Rosemary Feurer

Votes: 130