Editing Strike action (section)

==Films==

===Non-fiction===
* ''[[Rebellion in Patagonia|La Patagonia Rebelde]]'', Director: [[Héctor Olivera (film director)|Héctor Olivera]], Argentina 1974–A film about the [[Patagonia Rebelde|Patagonia Uprising]] of rural workers, of which approximately 1000 were killed by the [[Argentine Army]] in the [[Santa Cruz Province, Argentina|Santa Cruz Province]] in the early 1920s. 
* ''[[Final Offer]]''{{snd}}A look at the 1984 contract negotiations between General Motors and its union.
* ''[[Harlan County, USA]]'', Director: [[Barbara Kopple]], US 1976–A [[documentary film]] about a very long and bitter strike of coal miners in Kentucky
* ''[[American Dream (film)|American Dream]],'' Director: [[Barbara Kopple]], US 1990{{snd}}A [[documentary film]] about the unsuccessful 1985–1986 [[Meat packing industry|meatpacker's]] strike against [[Hormel Foods]] in [[Austin, Minnesota|Austin]], [[Minnesota]].
* [[Jimmy Hoffa]], a [[labor union]] leader who ran the [[International Brotherhood of Teamsters]] (IBT) union from 1958 until 1971, was portrayed by [[Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake]] in the 1983 TV-film ''[[Blood Feud (1983 film)|Blood Feud]]'', [[Trey Wilson]] in the 1985 television miniseries ''[[Robert Kennedy & His Times]]'', and by [[Jack Nicholson]] in the 1992 biographical film ''[[Hoffa (film)|Hoffa]]''.
* ''[[Newsies]]'', a [[Disney]] movie based on the [[Newsboys' strike of 1899|Newsboys' Strike of 1899]] directed by [[Kenny Ortega]] and music composed by [[Alan Menken]].
* ''[[Bastard Boys]]'', A miniseries based on the [[1998 Australian waterfront dispute]].
* ''[[Made in Dagenham]]'', A film about the strike by female employees at the Ford Motor company in the UK.
* ''[[The Great Grunwick Strike 1976-1978]]'' Director: Chris Thomas, Brent Trades Union Council (2007 film)

===Fiction===
* ''[[Strike (1925 film)|Statschka]]'' ("Strike"), Director: [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Soviet Union 1924
* ''[[Brother (1929 film)|Brüder]]'' ("Brother"), Director: [[Werner Hochbaum]], Germany 1929–On the general strike in the port of Hamburg, Germany in 1896/97
* ''[[The Stars Look Down (film)|The Stars Look Down]]'', Director: [[Carol Reed]], England 1939{{snd}}Film about a strike over safety standards at a coal mine in North-East England{{snd}}based on the [[A.J. Cronin|Cronin]] novel
* ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath]]'' a 1940 film by [[John Ford]] includes description of migrant workers striking, and its violent breaking by employers, assisted by the police. Based on [[The Grapes of Wrath|the novel]] by [[John Steinbeck]].
* ''[[Salt of the Earth (1954 film)|Salt of the Earth]]'', Director: [[Herbert J. Biberman]], US 1953–Fictionalized account of an actual zinc-miners' strike in [[Silver City, New Mexico]], in which women took over the picket line to circumvent an injunction barring "striking miners" from company property. The striking women were largely played by real members of the strike, and one woman was deported to Mexico while filming. The [[union organizer]] [[Clinton Jencks]] (from [[Jencks v. United States]] fame) also participated.
* ''[[The Molly Maguires]]'', Director: [[Martin Ritt]], 1970 film starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. Frustrated by the failure of strike action to achieve their industrial objectives, a secret society among Pennsylvania coal miners sabotages the mine with explosives to try to get what their industrial action failed to obtain. A Pinkerton agent infiltrates them.
* ''[[F.I.S.T. (film)|F.I.S.T.]]'', Director: [[Norman Jewison]], 1978{{snd}}loosely based on the [[Teamsters]] union and former president Jimmy Hoffa.
* ''[[Norma Rae]]'', Director: [[Martin Ritt]], 1979.
* ''[[Matewan]]'', Director: [[John Sayles]], 1987{{snd}}critically acclaimed account of a coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of [[West Virginia]].
* ''[[Made in Dagenham]]'', 2010{{snd}}based on the strike at [[Ford Motor Company|Fords]] plant in Dagenham, England, UK, which won equal pay for female workers.