Unemployment Movies

A man left the city to live in the countryside. One day, he goes fishing and catches a strange sack. Soon afterwards, he is chased by a mystery man...

The UCS struggle is a campaign film supporting the fight to retain their jobs by the workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards who developed a new weapon for...

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late...

In Alhambra, between the mountains and the river, a train runs through the village. Oscar, forty-eight years, has worked for the last twenty-fifth...

A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.

A couple trying to rekindle their relationship travel to St. Pierre, a French island off the Newfoundland coast, and become entangled with another...

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the...

A man hides his job from his wife. His wife wants to find out the truth, but it creates bigger problems for him. A disaster happens.

Davor is an IT technician who sees the solution to his troubles in going to Canada. On the same day he receives an email that his work visa has been...

The Idle Ones is a profile of contemporary affairs - somewhere on the edge of Europe - in a place where unemployment for some young people is fast...

Images and numbers illustrate the domestic political measures taken after the Nazis came to power to eliminate unemployment.

During the labour reforms of 2016, in a small French town, the Radial company closes its doors after a bitter strike. Jeansé, Juliette, Bruno,...

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

In a Swedish industrial community people are forced into unemployment to turn a iron-works company's negative profitability trend. Martin...

Outsourcing Greenville is the story of what happened when the world's largest refrigerator plant outsourced to Mexico leaving 1/4th of Greenville,...