Keyword: union

Civil War 360

6.4

2013

TV

HD

Explores one of the most divisive eras in American history from multiple perspectives.

Wall Street

7.6

1987

Movie

HD

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Live Nude Girls Unite!

6.3

2000

Movie

HD

Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.

Grosse Pointe Blank

7.7

1997

Movie

HD

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

On the Waterfront

8.2

1954

Movie

HD

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicates victims.

Blue Collar

7.6

1978

Movie

HD

When three workers try to steal from the local union, they instead discover corruption and decide to use this information for blackmail.

Flame in the Streets

6.7

1961

Movie

HD

During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

6.9

1989

Movie

HD

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

The Conspirator

6.9

2010

Movie

HD

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Harlan County U.S.A.

8.3

1976

Movie

HD

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Norma Rae

7.4

1979

Movie

HD

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

The Seafarers

5.5

1953

Movie

HD

Stanley Kubricks first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

Tap Roots

6.5

1948

Movie

HD

In 1860s Mississippi, the Dabneys, founders of the Dabney plantation in Levington, experience tragedy and turmoil when they refuse to join either side of the American Civil War.