DC Labor FilmFest and DC LaborFest Archive

 

Films, performances, tours, talks and other events presented or included in the DC Labor FilmFest and DC LaborFest, listed alphabetically by title for each year.

2001

• At The River I Stand

• Bread & Roses

• Human Resources

• La Ciudad

• Life & Debt

• Live Nude Girls Unite!

• Secrets of Silicon Valley

2002

• American Standoff

• Bartleby

• Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan

• Blue Vinyl

• Border Incident

• For Man Must Work or The End of Work

• Hammering It Out: Women in the Construction Zone

• Los Trabajadores

• Made in Thailand

• The Navigators

• Occupation

• Salt of the Earth

• Silkwood

2003

• Baran

• Christ in Concrete

• Couch Encounter

• Dirt

• Dirty Pretty Things

• H-2 Worker

• Inch'Allah Dimanche

• Two Lost Souls on a Dirty Night

2004

• Blind Shaft

• Burn!

• Do They Catch Children Too?

• Human Error

• Mondays in the Sun

• Roger & Me

• Take Out

2005

• American Dream

• Harlan County USA

• The Job

• Labor’s Troubador

• Living to Work

• Maids

• Mardi Gras: Made in China

• Nine to Five

• Off to War

• Office Space

• The Phantom of the Operator

2006

• The Axe

• Chicken Run

• Farmingville

• The Gronholm Method

• Isn't This a Time!

• Man Push Cart

• Nalini By Day, Nancy By Night

• North Country

• Office Space

• The Take

• Workingman's Death

2007

• Bread & Roses

• Cartoneros

• China Blue

• Death in the Forest

• Eye Of The Storm

• Fired!

• The Great Pretenders

• The Hollywood Librarian

• Homebound (BALIKBAYAN)

• Hula Girls

• I'm On Strike Because…

• It's A Free World

• Kes

• Land and Freedom

• Losers & Winners

• Made In LA

• Maid in America

• Morristown: In the Air and Sun

• Nalini by Day Nancy by Night

• No Sweat

• Office Space

• Our Daily Bread

• Outsourced

• Poor Cow

• Riff - Raff

• Strike

• Which Side Are You On?/Riff Raff

• Whistle While You Work

• Wind that Shakes the Barley

• Work And Respect

• Work Hard, Play Hard

2008

• 9 Star Hotel

• Battle in Seattle

• Chop Shop

• City of Cranes

• The Crowd

• End of the Line (Fim da Linha)

• Fired!

• The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut

• Great World of Sound

• If Stone Could Speak

• An Injury To One

• The Internationale

• The Job

• Kabluey

• Man Push Cart

• The Missing Star (La Stella che non c'e)

• Modern Times

• Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

• Office Space

• The Planning Lady

• The Promotion

• Ralph Fasanella: Painter of Working Class People

• Second Chances: Union Made

• Stop-Loss

• What Would The Drop Know About That?

• With a Stroke of the Chaveta

• The Worst Job In The World

2009

• Adventures of Power

• At Home in Utopia

• Blue Collar

• Bound For Glory

• Capitalism: A Love Story

• The Fight In The Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle

• Frozen River

• Grapes Of Wrath

• Heroes For Sale

• The Insider (Jack Mitchell, investigator; with Dr Jeffrey Wigand )

• The Job

• Just Another Cog In The Machine

• Manufactured Landscapes

• Mister Cok

• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (with Ellsberg & Judith Ehrlich/Rick Goldsmith)

• Never Turning Back: The World of Peggy Lipshutz

• Office Space (10th anniversary: with Milton, Lumberg & Red Stapler Raffle!)

• The Pentagon Wars (with Col Jim Burton)

• The Philosopher Kings

• The Planning Lady

• Schmatta

• Silkwood (Howard Kohn; "Who Killed Karen Silkwood, David Burnham, former NYT reporter)

• Situations Vacant

• Slap Shot

• Tokyo Sonata

• We Were There

• What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?

• The Whistleblower (with VanHollen, Platts, Collins, Akaka)

• Wild Boys Of The Road

2010

• Bread and Roses

• Dropkick Murphys \ Workers Song

• Fair Game (Whistleblower)

• Fast Food Nation

• Gigante

• The Informant!

• The Janitor

• Louise-Michel

• The Maid

• Office Space

• Outsourced

• Photo Booth

• She Works Hard For The Money

• Tomorrow's Industry

• Workplace Democracy: Corporate Style

• You deserve better - join a union

2011

• All the President’s Men

• Bleep Off and Die (Working Lunch)

• The Company Men

• Die Hardly Working (Working Lunch)

• Experience Matters (Working Lunch)

• Inside Job

• Locked Out

• Made in Dagenham

• Moon

• More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs (Working Lunch)

• Refusal of Unsafe Work (Working Lunch)

• Road I Must Travel (Working Lunch)

• Roll On Wisconsin Unions! (Working Lunch)

• Union Loafers (Working Lunch)

• Union Town (Working Lunch)

• Up in the Air

• The Whistleblower

2012

• Adventureland

• American Teacher

• Billy Elliot

• Black Legion

• Box Car Bertha

• Burn: One Year on the Front Lines to Save Detroit

• Hard Travelin'

• Morning Glory

• Newsies

• Office Space

• The Pajama Game

• Roll On, Columbia

• Sparkle

• Trash Dance

• We Are Wisconsin

2013

• Black and White and Dead all Over

• Brooklyn Castle

• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

• Gideon's Army

• Kinky Boots

• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

• The Man in the White Suit

• Men At Lunch

• My Piece of the Pie (Ma part du gateau)

• The Organizer (I Compagni)

• The Sign Painters

• The Waiting Room

• The Women on the 6th Floor

2014

• At the River I Stand

• Ben Shahn WPA Murals

• Billy Elliot

• Brother Hal (play)

• Burn

• DC Labor History Walking Tour

• Diego Rivera’s "Man at the Crossroads"

• Dirty Pretty Things

• Fasanella (film)

• The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle

• Fun with Dick and Jane

• IBEW Museum Tour

• Iron Workers History Tour

• Joe Uehlein & the U-Liners

• Joe Uehlein’s Birthday Tribute to Pete Seeger

• Kinky Boots

• Men at Lunch

• Modern Times

• Mother Jones Wreath-Laying

• Note by Note: the Making of Steinway L1037

• Office Space

• Poetry at Work

• Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget (discussion)

• Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget (exhibit)

• Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget (Mother’s Day Family Festival)

• Redes (with live music by the PostClassical Ensemble)

• Salt of the Earth (60th anniversary)

• So Much to Do: The Life of Business and Politics (book talk)

• Solidarity Forever Awards

• Sweet Joan of the Textile Mills

• Teamsters History Tour

• Trash Dance

2015

• AFL-CIO Archive Reception & Tour

• Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

• Ben Shahn WPA Murals

• Blood Fruit

• Bread & Roses: Filmmakers’ Works in Progress

• Can’t Take It No More

• Cesar Chavez

• Chicken Run

• City of Trees

• Compliance

• Creative Feds

• D.C. United Union Night

• DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert

• DC Labor FilmFest Preview Screening

• DC Labor History Bike Tour

• DC Labor History Walking Tour

• DC Labor411 Launch Party & Happy Hour

• Eat Sleep Die

• El Gaucho del Norte

• Fighting For Our Lives

• Fighting Inequality Conference

• The Grapes of Wrath

• The Hand That Feeds

• Hard Times

• IBEW museum tour

• Iron Workers history tour

• Joe Uehlein & The U-Liners Joe Hill Concert

• Joe Uehlein's May Day Celebration

• Labor Bus Tour

• Labor Film Poster Exhibit

• Labor History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

• Mother Jones wreath-laying

• Northern Lights

• Old Post Office murals & Original DOL Tour

• OPEIU 2 Women's Ctte Night @ The Movies/Happy Hour

• Oxygen For The Ears: Living Jazz

• Pride

• Rainwood House Sings

• Ralph Fasanella "Corner Butcher" dedication

• Solidarity Forever Awards

• Teamsters history tour

• Two Days, One Night

• WPFW’s Live at 5: Friday Labor Sings!

• Young Unionists Night @ the Movies/Happy Hour

• Your Rights at Work radio show

2016

• The 33

• 7 Chinese Brothers

• 99 Homes

• Arise! International Workers' Day Special

• Ben Shahn murals at VOA

• Concussion

• DC Labor Bike Tour

• DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert

• DC United Labor Night

• DC YTU/NoVA YELL Happy Hour

• Dream On

• Harvest of Empire

• The Haymarket Handbills

• IBEW museum tour

• The Intern

• Iron Workers history tour

• Jazz showcase with Rusty Hassan

• Joe Hill

• Joe Uehlein, Steve & Peter Jones

• Judge Smith Band

• Labor History Edit-A-Thon

• Labor History Walk

• Labor Live @5: LaborFest preview show

• Love and Solidarity

• Magpie & George Mann

• Mother Jones memorial wreath-laying

• Poetry at Work (reading)

• Poetry at Work (workshop)

• Redes

• Redes DVD release preview

• Sherpa

• Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle

• Suffragette

• Teamsters history tour

• The TEMPest

• Trumbo (2007)

• Trumbo (2015)

• Tula Connell on "Conservative Counter-revolution"

• UMD Archives Reception & Tour

• The Working Class Goes to Heaven

• Working Lunch screening

• WPA murals tour

• Your Rights at Work radio show

• Your Rights at Work: Workers Rights tip of the day

2017

• AFL-CIO building art & history tour

• Arise! International Workers' Day Special

• Aztec Sun

• Ben Shahn frescos at VOA

• Bread & Roses: Labor FilmFest previews

• DC Labor Bike Tour

• DC United Labor Night (vs Philly)

• DCLFF Tony Award (John Sayles)

• Deepwater Horizon

• Digging Where We Stand: Uncovering Our Own Local Labor Histories

• FDR and Labor

• Hidden Figures

• IBEW museum tour

• Images of Labor in the National Gallery of Art

• In Dubious Battle

• Interior Museum Murals Tour

• Iron Workers history tour

• Joe Uehlein: Songs for the Resistance

• Labor 411 Union Beer and Whiskey Tasting

• Labor at the Nat'l Museum of American History

• Labor Film Poster exhibit

• Labor History Edit-A-Thon

• Labor History Edit-A-Thon (follow-up session)

• Labor History Walk

• Labor Jazz Showcase

• Labor Live @5: LaborFest preview show

• Labor Shorts 1

• Labor Shorts 2

• Love and Solidarity

• Love Songs from the Liberation Wars (selections)

• Magpie

• Matewan

• May Day rally/march

• The Measure of a Man

• Metropolis

• Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point

• Mother Jones wreath-laying

• Native Land

• No God, No Master

• Quest

• R&B & Jazz Night: Lee Anderson and Bev Holton

• Revolution: New Art for a New World

• Sacco & Vanzetti

• Screening: 1984

• Sista in the Brotherhood

• Solidarity Forever Awards

• The Struggle for Justice: Labor at the National Portrait Gallery

• Teamsters history tour

• There is Power in a Union: A Labor Songs Vespers

• Who Is Dayani Cristal?

• Working Lunch: DC Labor FilmFest previews (trailers)

• Working Women in American History Bike Tour

• Your Rights at Work

• Your Rights at Work: Workers Rights tip of the day (runs 4x/day)

2018

• AFL-CIO Headquarters Tour

• American Socialist: Eugene Victor Debs

• Ben Shahn WPA Frescos/Murals

• Chill Parents (Laborpalooza)

• Company Town

• Comrade, Where Are You Today?

• DC Labor Chorus (Laborpalooza)

• Dictionary Of Marx

• Dolores

• FDR and Labor

• For Liberty, Justice, and Equality

• Free Lunch Society

• Heather Booth: Changing The World

• I Am Somebody: Three Films by Madeline Anderson

• I, Daniel Blake

• IBEW Museum Tour

• Images Of Labor In The National Gallery Of Art

• Iron Workers History Tour

• Joe Uehlein (Laborpalooza)

• Judge Smith

• Labor 411 Union Beer and Whiskey Tasting

• Labor at The National Museum of American History

• Labor History Bike Tour

• Labor History Walk

• Labor History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

• Labor Jazz Showcase

• Laborpalooza Musicfest

• Magpie

• Marx Reloaded

• May Day/Laborfest Special

• Moose Jaw Bluegrass (Laborpalooza)

• On The Seventh Day

• Pub Trivia Labor Edition

• Short Films About Karl Marx from East Germany

• Short Films About Labor

• Solidarity Forever Awards

• Strike

• A Strike and an Uprising (In Texas)

• The Sweat Of Their Face: Portraying American Workers

• Swing Shift

• Teamsters History Tour

• Union City Radio

• Versus: The Life And Films of Ken Loach

• Western

• The Worker’s Cup

• The Young Karl Marx

• Your Rights at Work (Radio Show)

• Zero Weeks

2019

• AFL-CIO Building Art & History Tour

• The American Nurse

• Blood on the Mountain

• Call Me Intern

• Carry It On: A Musical Celebration of Pete Seeger’s 100th Birthday

• Chesapeake CLUW Non-Traditional Trades Fashion Show Luncheon

• The Corporate Coup D’État

• Councilwoman

• DC Labor History Walking Tour

• DC Musicians’ Union Labor Jazz Showcase

• Dear Walmart

• Extract

• FDR and Labor

• High Flying Bird

• Idiocracy

• The Incredible Life & Death of IBEW Founder Henry Miller

• Labor at the National Museum of American History

• Labor History Today Podcast: Keep Making History!

• Labor Live@5 on WPFW: Ryan Harvey

• Labor Night at D.C. United

• May Day/Laborfest Radio Special

• Norma Rae

• Office Space

• On the Basis of Sex

• Sam Gompers Memorial/Afl Hq

• Solidarity Forever Awards

• Sorry to Bother You

• Support the Girls

• Takoma Trivia: the Labor Edition

• Union City Radio

2020

• The Artist and the State

• Atlantics

• Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed

• Eight Men Out

• In the Aisles

• The Moment Was Now

• Nae Pasaran

• No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin

• Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

• Queen Sugar

• Redes Lives!

• Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema

• Waging Change

2021

• The Chambermaid (La Camarista)

• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

• Lapsis

• The Lunchroom (Planta Permanente)

• Martin Eden

• Miss Marx

• Nasrin

• The New Deal for Artists

• The Whistle at Eaton Falls

• Work Songs

2022

• 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement

• American Factory

• Cane Fire

• How Green Was My Valley

• In the Company of Men

• The Killing Floor

• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

• Nine to Five

• Office Space

• Pride

• Union Maids

• Voice of La Raza

• The Whistle at Eaton Falls

• The Wobblies

2023

• American Factory

• The Assistant

• Blackberry

• Blue Jean

• Bombshell

• Fair Play

• Her Socialist Smile

• La Syndicaliste

• The Spirit of '45

• The Trotsky

• When Tomorrow Comes

2024

• Edge of the City

• In the Aisles [In Den Gängen]

• Matewan

• Modern Times

• Office Space

• The Old Oak

• The Promised Land [Bastarden]

• Unrest [Unrueh]

• Working Class Goes to Hell [Radnička Klasa Ide U Pakao]

2025

• Bless Their Little Hearts

• Blue Sun Palace

• Clockwatchers

• Good Night, and Good Luck

• IBEW Museum Tour

• La Cocina

• The Last Showgirl

• Lilly

• Nine to Five

• Postal Workers Museum Tour

• September 5

• Singing for Justice

• Strike

2026

• American Dream

• Baristas vs Billionaires

• Case 137

• Everybody to Kenmure Street

• Harlan County USA

• Idiocracy

• Late Shift

• Made in EU

• Man of Iron

• Man of Marble

• Modern Times

• No Other Choice

• Self Driver

• Sorry to Bother You

• Steal This Story, Please!

• WTO/99