Befitting the spirit of its subject matter, the film does not defer to any single authoritative voice, instead presented as an oral history related to the viewer by a group of surviving Wobblies. (By ...

Exclusive: After premiering at the New York Film Festival in 1979, the historic film is newly restored courtesy of Kino Lorber. Landmark Labor Movement documentary “The Wobblies” makes its return to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few films released over 40 years ago can claim to be as relevant today as when they first came out. The Wobblies is one of them.

Declaring, “an injury to one is an injury to all,” the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) upended and forever changed the labor movement a little over a century ago. The Wobblies’ commitment to ...

Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer’s portrait of America's most radical labor organization is an urgent reminder of what unions make possible. Teeming with rousing folk songs from the picket line and ...

Big Bill Haywood, Adolph Lessing, and Carlo Tresca, Paterson, New Jersey, 1913. (Getty) In Butte, Mont., masked men woke up radical labor organizer Frank Little, dragged him from their car, and then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York’s Metrograph canceled a Friday night filmmaker Q&A that was to accompany the 1979 pro-labor documentary “The Wobblies,” ...

Q&A with Professor Ahmed White, whose new book gives a dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union ...

AT 3 a.m. on August 1, 1917, six men pulled Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer Frank Little out of bed in his underwear in Butte, Montana. They dragged him behind a car, scraping off his ...

Few films released over 40 years ago can claim to be as relevant today as when they first came out. The Wobblies is one of them. The 1979 documentary, directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, ...