Germinal (2021)

The 2021 French adaptation of Zola's novel is the strike drama at full strength. Étienne Lantier takes a job in the Montsou coal mine and lodges with the Maheu family, and the six episodes follow poverty, dangerous work and a walkout as they push a mining town in northern France toward violence. The Maheus are the heart of it, so the strike is felt at the family table as much as at the pithead, with the owners' comfortable houses never far away. It is in French with subtitles, and it does not spare you the cost of the strike.