What, exactly, was "Made in Dagenham," the gigantic Ford factory in the UK, back in 1968? Nothing less than equal rights for women, Nigel Cole's "Norma Rae from the UK" suggests. It's a cheeky and ...

Films about female labor leadership are few and far between. The only two films that come to mind are the lighthearted 1957 Doris Day musical “The Pajama Game” and Martin Ritt’s 1979 “Norma Rae.” The ...

Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham is engrossing and inspiring, despite being the kind of movie in which one of the first words you hear is cheeky and half the images look like they belong on one of those ...

Though Dagenham is just miles outside mod London, “Made in Dagenham” doesn’t glamorize the life and work of the women at the plant. Just 187 women are employed at the factory as seat seamstresses, and ...

A tale set in the turbulent 1960s, against the backdrop of consumer culture and concerned with, among other things, the struggle of women to be taken seriously in the workplace, Made in Dagenham is ...

The world doesn’t seem to have as many great changers these days. Maybe it’s because cries for equal rights ring out as more of a niche interest than a noble pursuit, with everyone throwing up a ...

More stories by Nigel M. It appears that director Nigel Cole has a thing for the ladies. A Brit best known for helming “Saving Grace,” a precursor to “Weeds” that stars Blenda Blethyn as a small-town ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was an evil empire and a young hero, the last hope for freedom and justice. Through a series of trials and tribulations, the young hero moved closer ...

Rita O'Grady leads the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike at the Ford Dagenham plant, where female workers walk out in protest against sexual discrimination, demanding equal pay. The strike is ...

Heavy on period pieces in the best of times, there seems to be a strong backward-looking impulse in recent British film culture, a nostalgia for a time when they were merely an empire in decline. The ...

For a movie about fighting for what you believe in, "Made in Dagenham" never puts a toe out of line. At the time of the events depicted, the Ford factory in Dagenham employed 187 women as machinists ...