Lá Fora Ruge o Ódio (1961)

Bud Fox é um jovem ambicioso que trabalha no mercado de ações. Ele fará de tudo para chamar a atenção do bilionário Gordon Gekko, abandonando qualquer escrúpulo e ética para enriquecer. Mas ele irá aprender que com o sucesso vêm grandes riscos.

Chance Bondreaux é um estivador que trabalha no cais de Nova Orleans e que ajuda Natasha Binder, uma advogada, a encontrar seu pai desaparecido. Em sua investigação Chance descobre uma quadrilha que negocia pessoas, caçando mendigos e ex-combatentes em um safári mortal. É quando ele decide combater Emil Fouchon, o chefe do negócio, e seus capangas.

Terry Malloy sonha com as glórias do boxe, mas foi convencido pelo corrupto mafioso Johnny Friendly, para quem trabalha, a perder uma luta. Quando Terry presencia um assassinato cometido pelos capangas do chefe, ele se sente responsável pelo crime.

Na esteira do assassinato do presidente Abraham Lincoln, sete homens e uma mulher, Mary Surrat foram presos e acusados de conspiração para matar o presidente, o vice e o secretário de Estado. Surrat, de 42 anos, era proprietária do local onde John Wilkes Booth e outros se encontravam para planejar os ataques simultâneos. Herói da Guerra Civil e advogado recém fomado, Frederick Aiken decide defender a muilher diante do tribunal militar e ao decorrer do julgamento começa a perceber que sua cliente pode ser inocente das acusações, sendo usada somente para atrair o verdadeiro culpado, seu próprio filho.

Um assassino profissional (John Cusack) tem de fazer um "serviço" em um subúrbio de Detroit e, por coincidência, a reunião de 10 anos da sua turma de colegial acontece no mesmo local. Na sua pista estão dois agentes federais, um outro matador profissional (Dan Aykroyd), que tem a missão de matá-lo, e um outro assassino, que sonha criar um sindicato de assassinos profissionais.

Norma Rae é uma trabalhadora têxtil do sul, empregada em uma fábrica com intoleráveis condições de trabalho. Essa preocupação com a situação dá a ela o bom senso de ser a principal associada a um organizador sindical visitante. Juntos, eles empreendem a difícil e possivelmente perigosa luta para sindicalizar sua fábrica.

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Harry Black, um maquinista que assume a liderança do sindicato durante uma greve, acaba se tornando o homem mais importante da cidade. Apesar disso, alguma coisa o perturba. Rejeita sua mulher e vê-se envolvido com Gerogette, um jovem transexual apaixonado pelo musculosos Vinnie, e mergulha num obssessivo romance com Regina, um travesti local. Enquanto Harry afunda em seus problemas, outras personagens circulam pelas ruas do bairro às voltas com seus próprios dramas, como a atraente prostituta Tralala, apaixonada por um marinheiro que está de partida, e o gentil Tommy, agredido por seu futuro sogro Big Joe por ter engravidado a filha deste, Donna. Tudo acaba chegando a uma trágica conclusão quando a greve dos maquinistas transforma-se num confornto violento.

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

Acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick's first film made in color. The documentary focuses on the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

Pouvoir Oublier is a political documentary first constructed from the words of the speakers whose lives changed on the tragic day of May 10, 1972 in Sept-Îles. Their word will be juxtaposed with archival material from the events, some of which are unpublished, which will reflect the collective euphoria in which Sept-Îles and all of Quebec were then bathed.

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar. His interpretations of popular trends in music are sometimes right-on, and sometimes not exactly. Bereft of his guitar, the rebel's modes of expression are not as effective in generating interest as the Yokohama docks themselves, a fascinating world in their own right.

Two Union soldiers maintaining a position on a riverbank negotiate a one-hour truce with the Confederate soldier manning the opposite bank. During the hour, they gain respect for one another as they trade tobacco, enjoy some fishing and make an unsettling discovery.

In 1986, Louis Malle (himself a transplant to the United States) set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers — from teachers to astronauts to doctors — in communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a humane portrait of their individual struggles in an increasingly polyglot nation.

A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.