The Last Strike
Documentary Feature
In 1981, 11,345 air traffic controllers stood in solidarity on strike, defying President Reagan’s order to return to work; he fired them en masse, forever altering each of their lives and the entire American labor landscape for the next four decades. The Last Strike uses a wealth of long-buried archival materials and groundbreaking interview techniques with the key players from all sides of the story to take viewers inside the strike that changed everything, unravelling the mystery behind the moment American unions were nearly crushed.