Lech Walesa The Shipyard (2014)

Lech Walesa a shipyard worker and electrician in Sovietbloc Poland earned a reputation as an agitator and rabblerouser in the 1970s for speaking out against Communist control of labor unions Mr Walesa was subjected to frequent firings and intense police scrutiny But he was undeterred continuing his fight for fairer labor laws in particular the right to strike until it grew into something even he could not have expected an independent political movement that became one of the nails in the coffin of the Soviet Union