Migrant Worker Movies
- 2023
A Million Miles Away
A Million Miles Away7.82023HD
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.
- 1962
Wild Harvest
Wild Harvest3.71962HD
Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.
- 2017
God's Own Country
God's Own Country7.7852017HD
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
- 2024
The Goat Life
The Goat Life7.52024HD
The real-life incident of an Indian migrant worker, Najeeb Muhammad, who goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds...
- 2003
El Contrato
El Contrato02003HD
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...
- 2016
Number Eighty
Number Eighty02016HD
Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone...
- 1939
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men7.2891939HD
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
- 2013
Ilo Ilo
Ilo Ilo7.0142013HD
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
- 2017
Terrain Vague
Terrain Vague62017HD
A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his...
- 1980
Angel City
Angel City61980HD
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
- 2000
The Charcoal People
The Charcoal People7.42000HD
This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...
- 2023
Youth (Spring)
Youth (Spring)72023HD
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...
- 2021
Dignity Keeper
Dignity Keeper02021HD
When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and...
- 2016
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Farewell Ferris Wheel7.32016HD
Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...
- 2016
Brothers of the Night
Brothers of the Night5.42016HD
Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell...
- 2016
Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams02016HD
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would...
- 2016
Freedom Runners
Freedom Runners02016HD
Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose...
- 1960
Harvest of Shame
Harvest of Shame6.61960HD
In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range...
- 2017
The Workers Cup
The Workers Cup42017HD
Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of...
- 2023
A Tomato Tragedy
A Tomato Tragedy02023HD
In southern Italy, stateless migrants pick the tomatoes the rest of the world will taste. But what about these workers’ European dreams? Will...