Public Employee Press

Films for unionists

Members can borrow DVDs of these labor feature films and documentaries free from the DC 37 Ed Fund library in Room 211 at union headquarters.

Feature Films

El Norte - Immigrants journey north
Newsies - Musical: NYC child labor in the 1900s
In Time - Time on this imaginary earth costs money and inequality rules
Bread and Roses - Immigrants organize a union
Salt of the Earth - Chicano miners strike
FIST - Sylvester Stallone stars as former Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa
Norma Rae - Southern organizing, starring Sally Field
Made in Dagenham - Women strike for equal pay
Nothing But a Man - Race and class in a southern town in the 1950s
Silkwood - Nuclear plant union activist (Meryl Streep) is killed

Documentaries

At the River I Stand - The 1968 AFSCME sanitation strike in Memphis, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
The Other America - 1967 speech by King on race and class
Capitalism: A Love Story - by Michael Moore
Slavery by Another Name - Mass incarceration as the new form of involuntary servitude
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
The Next American Revolution - Beyond Corporate Capitalism and State Socialism featuring political economist Gar Alperovitz
Capitalism Hits the Fan - An economist looks at the recent economic meltdown
With Babies and Banners - Women in the 1937 Flint, Mich., sit-down strike
Rosie the Riveter - Women break barriers during World War II
Heist - Who Stole the American Dream?
Made in LA - Latina immigrant workers in garment sweatshops
Inequality for All - by former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich
Labor's Turning Point - The 1934 Minneapolis general strike
Triangle Fire - The 1911 tragedy that forever changed labor and industry

— Ken Nash