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BILLY ELLIOT (2000) young boy turns to dance during 1984 British coal strike
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OFFICE SPACE (1999) Mike Judge's classic office comedy
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MODERN TIMES (1936) Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society
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ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) ex-prize fighter stands up to corrupt union bosses
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BOXCAR BERTHA (1972) union leader & young woman exact revenge on rail management
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I'M ALL RIGHT JACK (1959) naive aristocrat caught up in labor struggles
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THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951) capital and labor suppress new fabric
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AN AMERICAN ROMANCE (1944) immigrant works his way up from the iron mines to industrialist
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WHICH WAY IS UP? (1977) Richard Pryor in 3 different roles, including a poor orange picker who gets laid off when he accidentally joins the union during one of their demonstrations.
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MARGIN CALL (2011) thriller revolves around the key people at an investment bank during the early stages of the current financial crisis
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MATEWAN (1987) union organizer comes to an embattled mining community
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JOE HILL (1971) life and death of the legendary union organizer Joe Hill
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THE ANGRY SILENCE (1960) young factory worker opposes wildcat strike
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BLACK LEGION (1937) hard-working machinist seduced into joining secretive Black Legion
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CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (1950) workers in a small factory take over the firm
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THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT (1992) productivity expert in 1966 Australia moccasin factory
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HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) Welsh family raises coal-mining sons
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THE MOLLY MAGUIRES (1970) secret group of Irish emigrant miners battles cruel mining bosses
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WHORE’S GLORY (2011) Several stories of prostitution around the world.
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BRASSED OFF! (1996) mine-closing in English village means end of miners' brass band
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CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL (1957) honest union official framed for murder of another union official
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IN GOOD COMPANY (2004) middle-aged ad exec is faced with a new boss nearly half his age
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THE STARS LOOK DOWN (1940) local student wants to support miners against the owners
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THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN (1971) conscientious factory worker gets involved in political and revolutionary groups.
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THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES (1941) tycoon goes undercover to ferret out labor agitators
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EASY LIVING (1937) rich financier throws his wife's sable coat out the window, where it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith
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BLACK FURY (1935) immigrant coal miner in the middle of a bitter labor dispute
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS (1967) 27-year-old New York window washer tries to succeed in the corporate world
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BOUND FOR GLORY (1976) biography of folksinger Woody Guthrie
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10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE (2002) A. Philip Randolph organizes black Pullman porters
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NEWSIES (1992) musical based on the 1899 New York City newsboy strike
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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006) naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest, most ruthless and cynical magazine editors
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GUNG HO (1986) American liaison mediates clash of work attitudes between Japanese management and American labor
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) Henry Fonda in Steinbeck's Depression classic
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THE PAJAMA GAME (1957) Classic musical features employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory
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