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The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves (2006)

60m; Ireland Director: Socialist Party of Ireland Synopsis (Indybay): “The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves” by the Socialist Party of Ireland describes how Turkish workers took on their...

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The Concrete Revolution (2004)

62m; China Director: Xiaolu Guo Synopsis: A look at life in a rapidly developing new China. Workers recruited from villages into Beijing’s construction industry tell their stories of a culture in flux....

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The Citadel: Birth of the LeVeque Tower (2011)

Director: Seth Moherman Synopsis: Documentary about the building of the LeVeque Tower in Columbus, OH.

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Builders and The Games (2012)

57m; U.K. Director: Margaret Dickinson Synopsis: “Builders and The Games is a 57 minute feature documentary  about construction workers and the building of the 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford, London....

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Hombre Maquila (2011) (Machine Man)

Director: Alfonso Moral & Roser Corella Spain, 2011, 14min Format: HDCam (screening) – DigiBeta, BetaSP (shooting) Festival Year: 2012 Category: Documentary Crew: Editor, Cinematographer: Alfonso...

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Men at Lunch (2012)

80m; Ireland Director: Seán Ó Cualáin Synopsis: New York City, 1932. The country is in the throes of the Great Depression, the previous decade’s boom of Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants has led to...

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Ivan and Arnold: Day Laborers from Both Sides of the Border (2013)

Directed by: Melinda Levin and Michael McPherson Documentary Short (28 minutes) This documentary short follows the lives of Ivan, an undocumented worker from Mexico and Arnold, a transitory laborer...

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The Overnighters

2014 Directed by Jesse Moss Runtime: 1 hr, 30m In the tiny town of Williston, North Dakota, tens of thousands of unemployed hopefuls show up with dreams of honest work and a big paycheck under the lure...

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Bread, Concrete, and Roses

2013 Documentary Turkey Director: Yonetmen The film is about the dangerous life of construction workers in a foreign land far from their homeland, and their social problems. –Written by Steven Zeltzer

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IBEW: Lighting the Path

Published on Oct 24, 2014 “Our smiles can light up a room. Our work can light up an entire city. We’re the men and women of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.” Outreach video for...

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Labour in a Single Shot

http://www.labour-in-a-single-shot.net Starting in 2011 artist, curator, and author Antje Ehmann and filmmaker, video artist and author Harun Farocki initiated video production workshops in 15 cities...

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Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten (2013)

by Harun Farocki. It is about life in an architecture studio directed by two people and follows the evolution of several projects at different levels of preparation.

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Cast in India (2014)

26 min, USA/India, 2014 Dir. Natasha Raheja Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse...

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La Demolicion (2005) (The Demolition)

Year: 2006 Genre: Comedy. Country: Argentina. Format: Color. Running Time: 78 minutes. Original Title: La Demolición. Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on pinterest_share Share on...

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Bricks

Carine Chichkowsky, a French filmmaker with the production company Survivance. She’s the producer of a new film called BRICKS, which looks at the brick manufacturing industry in Spain as a metaphor for...

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Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Director: Peter Berg Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay), Matthew Sand (screenplay) |3 more credits » Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin A Hollywood thriller recreates...

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Sorry We Missed You

2019 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 40m Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new...

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Solidarity

Film about the construction industry blacklist in the UK. Directed by Lucy Parker 2019; 75 mins SOLIDARITY is about the secretive methods used against UK activists and trade unionists. Blacklisted...

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Life on the Line

2015 ‧ Drama/Action ‧ 1h 37m After a family tragedy, Beau Ginner rises to be foreman in a Texas lineman team, upgrading overhead power cables and preventing disasters. However, there is friction when...

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