Labor Union Films

 Labor unions, strikes, labor organizing films. 

Newest to oldest. 

The Simpsons: Night of the Living Wage: Season 35; Episode 14 (2024)
After an unexpected medical bill requires Marge to get a job. She takes one with a food delivery start up. When the company proves to be a bad employer Marge starts a union, while company fights back.  Leading to a war and nobody being happy. 

Cesar Chavez (2014)
Based on the life of Cesar Chavez Labor Leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) the film devotes a lot of time to his work in the 1960’s and 70’s. 

Cart (2014)
The employees of a big box store unionize when the management start to lay off workers and forcing employees to deal with short staffing. 

Bread and Roses (2000)
Two sisters Maya and Rosa work as janitors and maids for a non-union company in Los Angeles, CA. When The Service-workers Union sends an organizer Sam Shapiro; conflict rises as management and employees fight for what they want. 

Harlan County War (2000)
Based on the Harlan County War in the 1930’s, A Kentucky woman with both her husband and Father hurt by the mines she joins the strikers in the long battle for better pay, working and living conditions.

The Simpsons: Last Exit To Springfield: Season 4; Episode 17 (1993)
When the dental plan is canceled by Mr. Burns to save money. Homer Simpson gets elected Union leader. As the leader of the union Homer leads a strike to get the dental plan back and other union goals. 

Germinal (1993)
Set in France during the 19^th century the miners of a town strike for better conditions. The aristocrats make moves to end the strike by any means necessary.  

Daens (1992)
Based on the book Pieter Daens by Louis Paul Boon [First Published in 1971]. Catholic Priest is sent to Aalst where he finds the working conditions at the major employer a textile factory deplorable, he works to help the poor going against the rich and powerful in society and the Catholic Church. 

Hoffa (1992)
Based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa a labor Union leader that had success in creating a successful and powerful labor union and got involved with organized crime before disappearing in 1972.  

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992)
After Jimmy Hoffa disappears the top position of the Teamsters Union is vacant. Jackie Presser a long time official in the union takes over as union president. 

Newsies (1992/2017) 
A musical about New York City newsboy Strike of 1899, When the newspaper publishers increase the distribution price of the already under paid newsboys, the boys form a union to battle the increase and for better working conditions.

Matewan (1987)
Set in Matewan, West Virginia Joe Kenehan a union organizer arrives in Matewan to help the miners.  While the company brings in scabs and strike breakers and union busters to keep things as they are. This results in bloody violent clashes. This is later reviled to be one of the early events in the West Virginia Coal Wars.   

Act of Vengeance (1986)
Based on the book Act of Vengeance by Trevor Armbrister [First Published in 1980]. After an accident the killed 80 miners in West Virginia the president of the United Coal Miners Union sides with the companies. Joseph Yablonski puts in his bid to become the President in the 1969 elections. Making him a target for assignation.  

Armed and Dangerous (1986)
A former cop and lawyer join a security guard company. When the pair question the union and the company they are punished. They decide to investigate what is going on and end up making enemies of everyone.  

Gung Ho (1986) TV Series: Gung Ho (1986-1987)
After the main employer a car company Hadleyville, Pennsylvania shuts down former foreman Hunt Stevenson convinces a Japanese Car Company to buy and reopen the factory. Things are good until the Japanese Management and American culture clash. Causing frustration and friction on both sides resulting in a walk off. With the plant at risk of being shutting down again the town comes together to save the plant and find a way to resolve their differences. 

Silkwood (1983)
Based on Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Howard Kohn [First Published in 1981]. Karen Silkwood is an employee at a Kerr-Magee Petroleum Plant. When working conditions become dangerous due to cost saving measures and forced overtime. Karen becomes a union activist and whistle blower. Until her death in a car crash.      

Norma Rae (1979)
Based on the true story textile worker and union organizer Crystal Lee Sutton. Norma Rae is an employee at a cotton mill that has poor and dangerous working conditions. Norma tries to unsuccessfully improve working conditions. When union organizer   Sonny Webster comes to create a union, Norma Rae devotes herself to the creation of the union. Resulting in angering her employers and alienating her friends and family she will not stop until a union is created. 

F.I.S.T. (1978)
Set in the 1930’s Johnny Kovack is a dock worker in Cleveland, Ohio shows he is a charismatic man that can bring workers together. When he loses his job, he is recruited to work for a labor union. After being successful after violent clash with his former employer he rises up the ranks and becomes powerful target to be taken down by his enemies. 

Which Way is Up? (1977)
Orange picker Leroy Jones loses his job after getting involved in a labor action. So, he goes to LA where he gets more involved with the company that fired him and the union that got him fired.  

Why Rock The Boat? (1974)
Set in 1940 Harry Barnes becomes a reporter for The Daily Witness. As he learns on the job, he becomes interested in fellow reporter Julia Martin who is working to form a journalist union. 

Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Based on Sister of the Road by, Ben L. Reitman [First Published in 1937]. A union leader and a young woman start a war with the railroad bosses becoming criminals in the process.

The Molly Maguires (1970)
Based on the book Lament for the Molly Maguires, by Arthur H Lewis [First Published in 1964]. In 1876 a secret society of Irish Immigrant Miners fight against the mine owners Pennsylvania and other places fight for better working conditions with gun powder, sabotage, and the support of the poor. The mine owners hire the Pinkerton Detective Agency to stop the society. 

The Organizer (1963)
Set in Turan, Italy a labor union forms after an accident at a textile factory cripples a worker. While struggling to improve working conditions the union gets unexpected help from Professor Sinigaglia a union activist. He helps to organize the Union and to start a strike. 

The Big Operator (1959)
A union leader with criminal ties targets union members that can testify against him and the mob.  

I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Based on the novel Private Life by Alan Hackney [First Published in 1958]. Stanley Windrush has returned from WWII and has decided to go into business for his uncle's business. Starting at the bottom he is to work his way up. The owners and the labor union both try to use him for their own goals.  

Chicago Confidential (1957)
Based on the book Chicago Confidential by Jack Lait [First Published in 1950]. A criminal organization murder a union treasurer is killed and fellow union official Arthur Blane if framed for the crime. Blane and his Fiancé Laura Barton try to prove his innocence. 

The Garment Jungle (1957)
Set in New York garment works are struggling to unionize while the owners are doing everything possible to keep the unions out.  

Salt of the Earth (1954)
Based on a real miners’ strike in New Mexico, The workers and their families start a strike for better conditions.

On the Waterfront (1954) 
Terry Malloy an ex- professional boxer goes to work as a longshoreman in New Jersey. While running errands for a local union boss with organized crime connections Terry witnesses a murder of a union member.  Terry is caught between the mob, the union, and those opposed to the mob. 

Black Fury (1935)
Set in Pennsylvania Joe Radek a Slavic immigrant miner joins a labor dispute and helps start a strike. When strike busters end the strike, Joe takes things to the extreme. 

A look at Military Basic Training, Officer Candidate School, and or Advanced Training.

This is a look at going though Basic Training, Officer Candidate School, and or Advanced Training.

Annapolis (2006)
Jake Huard a boy from a poor family is accepted to the US Naval Academy. He is near the bottom of the class with grades and discipline but manages to improve and finish his first year. 

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Zack Mayo has been accepted into the US Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. Zack is cocky and looks out for himself first. As he goes through the training, he clashes with a Gunnery Sergeant; falls for a local girl and becomes an officer and a gentleman. 

Biloxi Blues (1988)
Set during the final years of WWII A group of young recruits is sent for boot camp training in Biloxi Mississippi based on the play Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon. 

The Boys in Company C (1978)
Set in 1967 five young men become friends as they begin marine boot camp together and are sent to fight in The Vietnam War.  

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Steve Rodgers a reject from the US Military participates in a super soldier experiment. By doing this he becomes Captain America and fights against the Red Skull and his organization during WWII. 

C.P.O. Sharkley (1976-1978)
Chief Petty Officer Otto Sharkley is a career Navy man stationed in at a training base in San Diego, CA. At the base he labors to train a company of recruits into professional sailors.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Inspired by the novel The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford [First Published in 1979] The film James T Davis aka Joker going through Marine basic training at Paris Island South Carolina under Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. After training the story continues with Private Joker (Davis) becomes a military journalist and sees various action in Vietnam.

Glory (1989)
Based on the true story of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts one of the first black company of soldiers in the US Army. Colonel Shaw trains a group of black volunteers from civilians to professional soldiers in their first battle during the US Civil War. 

The Guardian (2006) 
Fictional story about the US Coast Guard: Search and Rescue training. Experienced sailor Ben Randall is tasked with training class of rescue swimmers including Jack Fisher a young hot shot rookie into a professional Sailor and rescue swimmers.

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Based on the true story of Medal of Honor recipient Desmond T Doss an army medic. It shows the challenges he faced for keeping his vow to never using a weapon, going through basic training and how he pulled at least 75 men to safety in one of the bloodiest battlefields in WWII. 

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Set in 1983 Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway in the US Marine Corp is assigned to Cherry Point North Carolina to train a reconnaissance platoon. Once there finds the platoon not fighting ready, as well as clashing with a Major Powers who sees him as old fashioned. Things change when the US goes to war with Grenada. 

In The Army Now (1994)
Two best friends enlist in the US Army Reserves for some extra money and the one weekend a month two weeks a year commitment. They two of them complete boot camp and then their MOS training and are ready to go back to regular life only to be called to active service in a foreign country. 

Legionnaire (1998) 
Set in 1925 Alain Lefevre a professional boxer gets in to trouble with the mob and joins the French Foreign Legion as a way to escape. He goes through training, bonds with his fellow Legionnaires and is sent to Morocco. While he is going through this the mob learns of his whereabouts, they send men to kill him. So, he has to face danger from within and without. 

Mulan (1998) (2020)
Inspired by the Chinese myth when the Emperor of China calls conscripts an army that would require her father or another male from the family. Mulan disguises herself as a boy and fills the Emperor’s requirement. Goes to boot camp and helps defeat the Hun invaders. 

The Navy Way (1944) 
A group of recruits and how they to go through the US Navy BootCamp. 

Our Girl (2013-2020)
In the first season Molly Dawes joins the British Army as a medic. She goes through training and sees action overseas in Afghanistan. The later season focus on a different medic different medic and her tours, missions and adventures in different parts of the world. 

Private Benjerman (1980)
After, Judy Benjerman's husband dies, she hears a recruitment pitch from an army recruiter and decides to enlist. She faces struggles through boot camp and has a promising career ahead of her until while serving overseas she gets romantically involved with a communist. 

Private Valentine: Blonde and Dangerous (2008)
Megan Valentine is a movie star that is limited in her roles and is having trouble with her career. She ends up enlisting in the US Army. She gets through basic and creates new opportunities for her career.

Renaissance Man (1994)
Businessman Bill Rago is in need of money takes a job as a teacher for the US Army. His assignment is to teach under achieving recruits pass basic and become soldiers.

Starship Troopers (1997)
Inspired by the novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein [First Published in 1959] Set in the 23^rd Century this is a Propaganda film about wealthy Johnny Rico as he joins the military for a girl goes through boot-camp to be a Mobil Infantryman and works his way up the ranks enlisted to officer as he fights in or is linked to the most important events and battles during the Earth Arachnid War. 

Strips (1981)
Two out of shape friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends decide to enlist in the US Army. They are laced in a platoon of other less than ideal recruits. When their Drill Sergeant is incapacitated, the guys pull together graduate and are sent on an overseas mission. Where they get involved in an international incident, they become heroes. 

There's Something About a Solider (1943)
Five soldiers from different backgrounds go to Camp Davis, North Carolina for Officers Candidates School compete with each other for command slots and for the local girls.

Tigerland (2000)
Set in 1971 a group of recruits is sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana for Advanced Infantry training before going to Vietnam. 

Ten Gentlemen From West Point (1942)
Set in the early 19^th Century Congress is debating on closing the academy; they decide to have it a one-year trail. When war breaks out the Cadets prove themselves and their worth. 

Top Gun (1986)
US Navy Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a daredevil Ace Fighter pilot that gets a place in the Top Gun School. There he works to be the best of the best, out do his father, and overcome personal tragedy after his best friend dies in an accident. 

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Set 30 years after the events of the first film Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is now a Captain. When he is assigned to train a group of the pilots that the US Navy and Top Gun have to offer on what may be a suicide mission into enemy territory. As he does this, he faces mistakes and demons from his past to get his students back home.  

Yomigaeru Sora - Rescue Wings (2006) 
An anime series of the search and rescue wing of the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) Through the eyes of a young helicopter pilot new to the unit. 

Films and TV about Americans leaving and living outside of the United States (updated and expanded)

This is a list of films and TV shows about leaving, gaining education, living and working outside of the USA. 

Vacations and military service have been excluded. 

I covered a range of motivations/reasons why as well as including as including many different countries. All of the titles have the protagonists living, getting education or working outside of the US. 

(Several of these take place in a fictional country, island etc... the ones that take place in the real world are listed here: Canada, Australia, France, Thailand, Singapore, Morocco, The Caribbean,  Mexico, Hong Kong, French Polynesia, Japan, Kenya, Norway, Central America,  Africa, Egypt, South America, India, Great Brittian, UK, Ireland, Germany, Marivella Islands, Moldova, Italy and Sweden. 

Due to the unexpected interest in the subject, I have updated and expanded the original list. There are 47 titles on this list if I find more titles, this article will be updated again. 

The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)
The Robertson family is living in Los Angles when they decide to leave their urban life for the rural outdoors hundreds of miles from another living person (They family maybe in the US or Canada). The family faces many dangers from the wildlife, the elements, but by pulling together if they survive it all. Followed by 2 sequel The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978), Adventures of the Wilderness Family 3 (1979)

Archer: Danger Island: Season 9 (2018)
Inspired by Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982) Season 9 of Archer (2009-2023) Is set in 1938 where Archer is a pilot living in the Mitimotu Island chain. Archer along with his copilot and a parrot side kick along with other residents of the islands. Band together to battle Nazi's and seek a mysterious treasure that is not a Golden Monkey. 

Bad Medicine (1985) 
Based on the book Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978] Young Americans that cannot get in anywhere else go to a rundown Medical College in a fictional third world country. 

The Beach (2000)
Based on the novel The Beach by Alex Garland [First Published in 1996] Richard an American is traveling through Thailand when he obtains a map to an island beach paradise and cannabis patch. Joining together with a young French couple also traveling through the country. They follow the map and find a hidden community of people that dropped out of society and have created their own isolated community. With being welcomed the three decide to stay however problems arise from jealousy, isolation, injury, and not producing anything. 

Blue State (2007)
John Louge is a liberal that goes out drinking one night where he vows to leave the US if George W Bush wins the 2004 election. When this happens, John is unable to take back his vow immigrates to Canada. As he is going through this, he falls in love with a blogger Chloe Hamon who is documenting his journey. 

Bring Em Back Alive (1932) (1982)
Set before WWII American adventurer and trapper Frank Buck lives and operates out of Singapore catching live wildlife from nearby jungles for Zoo's, circuses, etc... with his crew while fighting criminals and helping his friends. 

Bush Doctor (1982)
After suffering from a personal tragedy Dr. Robert Maxwell retires from medicine and goes to Africa to get away from it all. After a school bus crashes Dr. Maxwell is pressed into service by the local understaffed mission hospital. 

Cafe Americain (1993-1994)
Sitcom about Holly Aldridge a girl from the US takes a job as a waitress at a small cafe in Paris and the regulars that like to hang out there. 

Casablanca (1942)
Rick an American runs a club in French, Morocco. One day Ilsa the one that got away comes back into his life. Ilsa and her husband need his help to get out of the country and to safety. 

Club Paradise (1986)
A Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker is injured on the job and receives a huge settlement. He uses that settlement to immigrate to a Caribbean Island where he invests in and transforms a club into a resort for affluent tourists.

Coyote (2021)
After US Customs and Boarder Agent Ben Clemens is forced into retirement, he goes to a coastal town in Mexico to work on some property he owns. While there he runs into trouble with a power criminal organization and becomes involved with people needing to cross the US, Mexico Border. 

Daktari (1966-1969)
Veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracy and his daughter Paula and their team run an animal research center in Africa while battling criminals and other dangers.  

Donovan's Reef (1963)
After WWII three US Navy veterans have decided to live on an island paradise French Polynesia. They are living the good life when Doctor William Dedham inherits a controlling interest in his families shipping company. His daughter Miss Ameila Dedham who he has never meet comes to the island to see if her father has violated a morality clause. If he has then the shares would go to other family members. While William is away preforming his work as a Doctor his friends try to hide any hints of the moral clause being broken while Amelia is on the island. 

Emily in Paris (2020-2024)
Emily Cooper is an up-and-coming midlevel manager is about to take over her mentors as she is going to take a position in Paris Trance. However, she becomes pregnant and is unable to go so she sends Emily in her place. When Emily arrives in Paris, she gets a social media following, romantic challenges and various misadventures. 

The Family (2013)
Based on the Book Malavita by Tonino Benacquista [First Published in 2004] The Manzoni Family are relocated to Normandy after Frank Manzoni the patriarch of the family cooperates with the US Government. Unfortunately, they are discovered, and the Mafia seeks to settle the score.

Girls of The White Orchid AKA Death Ride to Osaka (1983)
Carol Heath is a waitress and an aspiring singer living in Los Angles. One day Carol responds to a job ad to be an entertainer in Tokyo, Japan. The job includes regular work at a night club The White Orchid as well as a place to stay. Once there she learns that she has been charged various fees and building debts that take away almost all of her pay and that she cannot leave the country. The only ways out presented to her are to pay the debts, or to go into prostitution for the club's owners the Yakuza, or death. While Carol is dealing with this her boyfriend Don Potter goes to Japan to find and rescue her. 

Going To Extremes (1992-1993)
Short lived series about American medical students going to the Caribbean for medical training and dealing with different cultural environment.

Hatari! (1962)
Hatari is the Swahili word for Danger. Sean Mercer runs the Momella Game Company which is an animal capturing business out of East Africa where he and his team capture wildlife for Zoo's and Circuses around the world. When a photographer Anna Marie Dallas D'Allesandro comes to document the work the lives and team dynamics are changed. 

Hot Resort (1985)
A group of poor American boys get jobs at a Caribbean resort. Where they try to get girls, fast money, have fun partying and defeating the (80's style) rich jerks next door.

Lilyhammer (2012-2014)
A former mobster is relocated to Lilyhammer, Norway after turning on his boss and various associates. 

The Long Haul (1957)
Based on the novel The Long Haul by Mervyn Mills [First Published in 1956]. After WWII ends Harry Miller American solider settles with his English wife in Liverpool, England. He takes a job as a long-distance trucker and runs into trouble with a criminal organization trying to take over the industry.

Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Based on Another Man's War by Sam Childers [First Published in 2009]. After being released from prison a former biker drug dealer turns his life straight, finds GOD, becomes a Christian, has a baptism and gets involved with his church. This includes a mission trip to Africa where he is called by GOD to build an orphanage and protect children from conscription into a child Army.

Mogambo (1953)
Professional Hunter and Guide Victor Marswell runs a safari and game catching business in Kenya, Africa. After being sought out different clients he becomes involved in a love triangle with two very different woman. 

Midnight In Paris (2011)
Gil a writer travels to Paris France with his girlfriend and her family. Gil loves the city fantasizes, about Paris in the 1920’s. One night he travels back in time to Paris in the 20’s. After meeting his heroes and learns about himself he has to decide to live in the past or be in the present.

Mr. Baseball (1992)
Baseball player Jack Elliot has made some poor choices it traded by the New York Yankees to a Japanese Team The Chunichi Dragons. Unhappy with the trade and wanting to do things his way he clashes with his teammates, coaches and others until he accepts his situation and learns about Japanese culture.

The Mosquito Coast (1986) (2021) 
Based on the novel The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux [First Published in 1981] Allis Fox an idealist inventor moves takes his family from the US to Central America to build a utopia that he will be the leader of.  In his pursuit of his dream, he puts himself and his family in danger.  

The Mummy (1999)
An American adventurer Rick O'Connell leads a few archeologist and treasure hunters to the lost city of Hamunaptra, Egypt. There they awaken a cursed mummy that threatens to destroy the world. 

The Naked Jungle (1954)
Based on the short story Leiningen Versus The Ants by Carl Stephenson [First Published in 1938]. Set in 1901 Joanna Selby a woman from New Orlans agrees to become a mail order bride to Christopher Leiningen the owner of a cocoa plantation in South America. As the couple struggle with the new relationship a colony of army ants are on a raid that is headed for the plantation. 

Off The Map (2011) 
Three US Doctors just out of residency go to work at a free medical clinic (200 miles away from any other medical facility) in rural South America to gain experience and learn from the established Doctors that run the clinic. 

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991)
During the pirate age Black Jack Savage was a successful wealthy pirate until he is caught and hanged in the courtyard of his own castle on a Caribbean Island, here he is stuck as a ghost unless he atones for his crimes by saving 100 lives and then he can go to heaven. In 1991 the new owner multimillionaire Barry Tarberry criminal stockbroker buys the castle to hide from the US Government. As the owner Barry is the only person that can see and hear Black Jack and help him save 100 lives along with avoiding a similar punishment himself. The two of them began their quest to save lives. 

Our Lips Are Sealed (2000)
Twins Abby and Maddie Parker witness/stop a crime and are put into the Witness Protection Program with their family and relocated to Sydney, Australia. While the girls work to become popular Members of a crime family search for the girls. 

Out Sourced (2006) (2010-2011)
The Movie and TV series have the same basic plot. A call center the sells novelty toys has been outsourced to India. A Manager from America goes there to set up and train the new employees.

Oxford Blues (1984) 
American Nick De Alango from Las Vegas enrolls in Oxford University to win his dream girl. In pursuit of that goal, he joins the rowing crew and grows as a man. 

Pair of Kings (2010-2013)
Twins Brady and Duke Boomer Parker living in Chicago, Illinois learn that their parents were royalty of an island. Now that the two of them have come of age they are now the Kings of The Kingdom of Kinkow. 

The Quiet Man (1952) 
Based on the Quiet Man and Other Stories by Maurice Walsh [First Published in 1935]. Retired American Boxer Sean Thorton immigrates to Ireland to reconnect with his heritage and to start a new life. He buys a cottage and romances and marries a local girl. 

Quigley Down Under (1990)
Matthew Quigley a sharpshooter and gun fighter from Wyoming is hired by a wealthy Australian rancher for mysterious a special job.

Skyscraper (2018)
A former FBI agent Will Sawyer becomes a security expert and is living and working in Hong Kong after a life changing injury. When a group of criminals set fire to the skyscraper his family is in, he does everything he can to get to and save his family. 

Straw Dogs (1971) 
Based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon M. Williams [First Published in 1969] An American David Sumner and his English wife Amy Sumner move to rural England for a more peaceful life. Unfortunately, a disagreement with a crew of local laborers turns deadly. (The remake Straw Dogs (2011) has the same plot but takes place in the US). 

Suspiria (1977) 
Suzi Bannion a young American enrolls is a prestigious Ballet School in Germany. At the school strange things happen, people die in mysterious ways, and the school has a history of witchcraft.

Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982)
Set in the 1930's former fighter piolet Jack Cutter lives as a bush piolet, adventurer, and treasure hunter and operates out of the Marivella Islands. Having regular adventures with his dog, mechanic, love interest/American spy together they seek treasure, fun and foil Nazi plans in that part of the world.  

They're Watching (2016)
The crew of a realty home improvement TV show head to Moldova on a segment about an American homeowner transforming a rundown house into an artist's haven. The crew ends up having problems with the villagers and a dangerous witch. 

The Undefeated (1969) 
After the Civil War Carpet Baggers and corrupt politicos start stealing the homes and lands of the former Confederates. Former Confederate Colonel James Langdon his family along with other former Confererate families travel to Mexico as refugees. As this is happening a businessman, and former Union Officer Colonel John Henry Tomas is also going to Mexico to sell wild horses for higher prices than he can get in the US. The two groups meet while traveling and later join forces when Mexican revolutionaries attack them.

Under The Tuscan Sun (2003)
Based on the memoir Under The Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy, by Frances Mayes [First Published in 1996]. A recently divorced writer, professor, and critic takes a trip to Italy where she impulsively buys a villa and begins an expensive and extensive restoration.

Volunteers (1985) 
Set in 1962 Lawerance Bourne the third is an upper class, gambler, and womanizer is on the run from a gambling debt. He escapes this by joining The Peace Core on a mission to Southeast Asia. Where several groups have an interest in a bridge the Peace Core plans to build. 

Welcome To Sweden (2014-2015)
New York City account Bruce is in love with his Swedish girlfriend Emma. When she gets an important prestigious job with a bank in Stockholm, Sweden he quits his job and goes with her. Bruce finds adjusting to living in Sweden more challenging than expected. 

The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
Based on the novel The World of Suzie Wong by Richard Mason [First Published in 1957]. American architect Robert Lomax decides to change his life and pursue dream of being an artist. He does by moving to Hong Kong and living off his savings in a poor part of the city. There he hires a local prostitute to be model and muse. They fall in love and face tragedy's and decide to get married. 

Tokyo Pop (1988) 
Rocker Wendy Reed impulsively goes to Japan with little money, no local friends, or knowledge of the language of the culture. Discovers ways to adjust to different world, finds fleeting fame, and contemplates her future. 

 Youngblood (1986)
17-year-old Farm boy Dean Youngblood leaves his home in upstate New York to become a professional hockey player in Hamilton, Canada.

Attending Medical School | Nursing School Films

Medical School | Nursing School

Films about attending Medical School or Nursing College.

There is a combined total 35 with taking 24 including Medical College/Education with 9 under the category of Nurse College/Education. 8 are from and take place in the 21^st Century; the remaining 27 are from or take place in the 20^th century or earlier.

Medical School/Education 

Arrowsmith (1931)
Based on the book Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis [First Published in 1925] The life of Martin Arrowsmith MD. In the book Arrowsmith explores medical education as well as the various avenues of the medicine at the time; the movie cuts it down to just a few plot points.

Bad Medicine (1985)  
Based on the book Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD, and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978] Young Americans that cannot get into a medical college anywhere else go to a rundown Medical College in a fictional third world country. 

Doctor G (2022)
Medical Student Uday Gupta is unable to obtain a place in his chosen specialty in Orthopedics and to be like his personal hero and cousin Dr, Ashok Gupta. Uday is unwilling/unable to leave the city because of family enters the OBGYN program with the plan to later transfer. So, with this plan develops an attitude/last approach that offends his professor and classmates. As he is forced to confront his bias, pride he also learns about his family members and out grows his childish perceptions and works to make up for his past actions as a man and as a physician. 

Doctor In The House (1954) (1969-1975)
Based on Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon [First Published in 1952] Simon Sparrow a freshman medical student falls into a group of Playboys that are having a good time partying, playing sports, and enjoying college life.

Flatliners (1990) 
Five medical students perform dangerous near-death experiments. As they push the limits of the experiments, they begin to experience waking nightmares involving their past sins.  

Flatliners (2017) 
Inspired by the film Flatliners (1990) Five medical students experiment with near death. The first members seem to gain benefits from the process however as the experiments continue guilt and past sins start to haunt members of the group. 

Getting In (1994)
Gabriel Higgs is waitlisted for getting into John Hopkins University with six people ahead of him. So, he decided to bribe the other on the list. However, somebody is killing the wait list is with him being number 6 what kind of danger is Gabriel in? 

Going To Extremes (1992-1993)
Short lived series about American medical students going to the Caribbean for medical training and dealing with different cultural environment. 

Gross Anatomy (1989)
A first-year med student wants to become a doctor. Yet he appears not to care about anything, To the annoyance of his classmates and professors. Will he make it through gross anatomy and his first year or dropout? 

Hard Rock Medical (2013-2018)
Eight students that are Medical Students attending the Boreal Medical School in Canada. These students are participating in the school's rural medicine program.

House of God (1984)
Based on the book House of God by Samuel Shem MD [First Published in 1978] A Semi-autobiographical memoir; about a group of interns entering into the medical field. As they face tragedies and grow as professionals, they become disillusioned with the profession. 

The Interns (1962) 
Based on the novel The Interns by Richard Frede [First Published in 1960] Several Medical students began their internships and face personal and professional challenges. 

The Legendary Doctor Hur Jun (1999) Gu-am Heo Jun (2013)
Based on the life of Heo Jun a man a concubine son of a general that becomes a respected Physician and author of the most important medical text in Joseon Era Korea.  

Not As A Stranger (1955)
Based on the book Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson [First Published in 1954] A young man that lives for medicine sacrifices almost everything to attend medical college and to have a successful medical career. After becoming a MD must deal with the limitations of medicine as well as frustrations and disillusionment of the medical system along with men and women that work in the medical field. 

Off The Map (2011) 
Three US Doctors completing their residencies go to work at a free medical clinic (200 miles away from any other medical facility) in rural South America to gain experience and learn from the established Doctors that run the clinic. 

Patch Adams (1998) 
Based on the book Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System and Society Through Physician Service Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander [First Published in 1992]. Patch decides to become a doctor to help people. Not liking the way things have been done he sets out to change the system with using humor and laughter to help the sick. 

The Physician (2013) 
Based on the novel The Physician by Noah Gordon [First Published in 1986] During the 11 Century Rob Cole apprentices to a barber surgeon; When he meets a Jewish physician trained by a Persian Academy. Rob Cole becomes determined to attend the academy. Unable to attend due to being Christian he disguises himself as a Jew and attends the academy.

Re-Animator (1985)
Inspired by the short story Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922] A medical student and his friend experiment with a serum that reanimates the dead to less than the desired results. Followed by two sequels Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Beyond Re-Animator (2003). 

Scream Queens: Season 2 (2015-2016)
Several survivors from season 1 go to work at the C.U.R.E. Institute a hospital and medical college for incurable diseases, where a new costumed serial killer (or killers) known as the Green Meany stalks the halls. Attacking; Murdering the patients, staff, volunteers, visitors, and survivors of the first series. 

Scrubs: Med School (2009-2010)
In the last and final season of Scrubs (2001-2010) Sacred Heart Hospital was torn down and a med school was put in its place. With the series following a group of med students and some of the original cast teaching at the med school. 

Service to Man (2016)
Set in 1967 at Meharry Medical College a Historically Black College University located outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The college has accepted it first white student Eli where he deals with anti-white racism and distrust, along with the challenges of medical school.  As this is happening Eli develops a rivalry and a friendship with legacy student Michael Dubois.

Stitches (1985) 
Three med students pull pranks, throw wild parties, woo the girls and take on the mean Dean in the college movie. When they throw one too many pranks and their leader get kicked out will the guys be able to come up with a plan to save him?  

Summer 2007 (2007) 
After getting in over his head in politics a Medical Student decides to get out of town for a while. He convinces several of his friends/classmates to do their required community service internship at what they believe will be a modern clinic in an upper-class vacation area of India. Instead, they are sent to a poor rural area.

White Coats aka Intern Academy (2004)  
Seven student interns go to learn and work at St Albert’s Teaching Hospital the worst hospital in the Canadian Health System.  

Vital Signs (1990)
Medical students enter their third year and choose and compete for the specialties they are to enter. While dealing with personal and professional challenges. 

Nurse College/Education

4 Girls in White (1939)
Four girls enter a nurse training program for different reasons. The girls learn and grow on the journey to becoming nurses. 

Angles in White AKA Itsumademo Shiroi Hane (2018)
Rumi Kizaki is a young woman that failed to get into Japan's National University. So, she enrolls into a Nursing school as a last choice back up. As Rumi learns, interacts with classmates, and patients she realizes being a Nurse maybe more than a backup plan for her. 

The Lamp Still Burns (1943) 
Based on the book One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens [First Published in 1942] While WWII is Hilary Clarke decides to become nurse and is put through a demanding training process. As this is happening, she falls in love and must choose between staying a nurse or getting married to the man she loves.

The New Nurses AKA Sygeplejeskolen (2018-2019)
Danish TV series about the first men and their female classmates that are to train and become Nurses at a training hospital in 1950’s Denmark.

Nobody’s Baby (1937)
Failing to get into show business two friends attend Nurse School and get mixed up with a secret pregnancy/baby within a secret marriage. 

The Shift (2013) 
During a 12-night shift in the ED an experienced nurse has to train a new nurse. As the shift passes the two of them disagree about quality of life and quantity of life in regard to the people they are treating.

The Student Nurses (1970)
Four friends and student nurses become sexually liberated, learn about their chosen specialties, and are a part of issues that were relevant/going on at the time.

Tammy and the Doctor (1963) 
This is the third movie in the Tammy Tyree film series. Tammy accompanies a friend to LA where the friend is getting an operation. Not having money or a place to stay Tammy gets a job as a nursing assistant/Nurse training and starts dating a young Doctor, while her friend gets better. 

White Parade (1934) 
Students get through nursing school from first day of college to graduation.

Due to few films and TV shows I have added Nursing assistants as protagonists to add a few more titles. 

Nursing Assistants 

Disorderlies (1987) A Gambler Winslow needs money to pay off gambling debts or pay the price. The easiest way for him to get the money he needs is to inherit it from his dying uncle. To speed up the process he hires the worst orderlies in the US. However, his uncle health and vitality greatly improve under their care. This causes Winslow to go to more drastic plans. 

The Disorderly Orderly (1964) Jerome Littlefield a med student becomes an orderly. As an orderly he causes chaos due to clumsiness and a psychosomatic problem causes him to take on the symptoms that people tell him they suffer from. 

Paper Mask (1990) Based on the book Paper Mask by John Collee [First Published in 1988] Hospital orderly Matthew Harris discovers a young doctor has died so he assumes his identity and gains employment in a Casualty Dept. in another part of the country. He struggles with his new role until an experienced nurse helps him. It unravels when he makes a mistake and kills someone. 

Skelton Key (2005) Caroline Ellis a Hospice Nurse quits her job and goes to work for a New Orleans Plantation helping a take care of her husband that suffered from a stroke. At the plantation she investigates a ghost story and other mysterious happenings around the house. 

The books 

1. Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System and Society Through Physician Service Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander [First Published in 1992]
2. Flatliners by Leonore Fleischer [First Published in 1990]
3. Paper Mask by John Collee [First Published in 1988]
4. The Physician by Noah Gordon [First Published in 1986]
5. Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD, and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978]
6. House of God by Samuel Shem MD [First Published in 1978]
7. The Interns by Richard Frede [First Published in 1960]
8. Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson [First Published in 1954]
9. Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon [First Published in 1952]
10. One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens [First Published in 1942]
11. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis [First Published in 1925]
12. Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922]