Celebrate Labor Day With These Great Films

[Omaha Steve]

Feel free to add to this list.

Norma Rae (1979) - won Oscar for Best Actress and Best Original Song, nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay

Cesar Chavez (2014) - a film about the legendary union activist.

American Factory (2019) - won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Available now on Netflix.

The Irishman (2020) - any Martin Scorsese film about a union leader (in this case, Jimmy Hoffa) would make our list, even though it blends fact and fiction. It was nominated for 10 Oscars. Available now on Netflix.

The Molly Maguires (1970) - a film about Pennsylvania coal miners, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris.

Roger & Me (1989) - won Best Documentary, National Board of Review

Matewan (1987) - nominated for Oscar for Best Cinematography

Bread & Roses (2000) - nominated for Palme D'Or, Cannes Film Festival

Harlan County, USA (1976) - won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature

[Tanuki]

1. Than you, Omaha Steve!

Here's another one: American Dream, an Oscar-winning documentary of the Hormel meat workers' strike, made by Barbara Kopple (who also directed Harlan County)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0099028/reviews

[appalachiablue]

2. The Grapes of Wrath, On the Waterfront,

Salt of the Earth, The Killing Floor, Hoffa, Suffragette.

More,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_the_labor_movement

- 2015. Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, Natalie Press, & 3-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep. SUFFRAGETTE is a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain.

The story centers on Maud (Carey Mulligan), a working wife & mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life.
Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.