Migrant Worker Movies

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

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 him...

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

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.

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...

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 pri...

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to...

Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down t...

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chin...

A Haitian migrant struggles to bring his son to Chile from their homeland. He works as a waiter in a restaurant where he must endure the petulance of...

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 and...

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to ma...

This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their ann...

Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their...

Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers from all over scramble before the frost puts an e...

In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range fr...