Millions of Us (1935)

Millions of Us 1935 is an early example of American laborleft filmmaking that experiments with enacted forms anticipating Frontier Filmss renowned People of the Cumberland 1938 and Native Land 1942 Produced surreptitiously in Hollywood in 19345 the film dramatizes the plight of millions of unemployed workers amidst the Depression This message is filtered through the story of a single forgotten man who walks the streets in desperate search of a job Driven by hunger he contemplates becoming a scab A union man intervenes coaching him to recognize common interests with his brethren He is ultimately converted to the cause of trade unionism