DocHouse: Union Town

After 50 years documenting the battle for labour rights, Barbara Kopple's latest film follows delivery industry workers in New York as they take on some of the world's most powerful corporations, fighting for basic rights and fair wages.

Completing her trilogy of documentaries that began with HARLAN COUNTY USA (1976) and AMERICAN DREAM (1990) - both Best Documentary Oscar winners - UNION TOWN interweaves the struggles of three distinct but related groups of workers - at UPS, Amazon and the massive app-based bike delivery workforce that New York, like so many cities globally, has become reliant on.

Filmed in Kopple's intimate, verité style, UNION TOWN reveals a massive, vulnerable workforce propping up enormously profitable corporations, and the union teams organising and negotiating in the middle. An essential insight into the fabric of society in 2026.