On his death, the French Culture Minister, Audrey Azoulay, said he "stood for an activist approach to cinema, based on his commitment to political and social engagement".

[6] Three years later, in 1971, he directed De la belle ouvrage; the television film was about the struggle of a factory worker to handle new technology.

[6] In 1977, Failevic released 1788, a film about the struggle of villagers before the French Revolution, their awakening with the advent of the Cahiers de doléances, and their disillusionment in the wake of the abolition of privileges on 4 August 1789.

[6][7] In 1997, Failevic directed Le premier qui dit non, a film about a football player who returns to the lower-class neighborhood of his childhood to meet the drug dealers who murdered his brother.

[3][5] A year later, they worked together on 300 jours de colère, another documentary about the factory workers of the Mossley Group in Hellemmes-Lille, northern France, who bargain collectively for severance packages.

[7] In 2004, he directed Jusqu'au bout, a television mini-series based on the real-life protests of workers at the Cellatex factory in Givet, in the Ardennes, over its 2000 closure.

[3][5] Failevic was an active member of the Syndicat français des réalisateurs de Télévision, a subgroup of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), the second largest labor union in France.

[3][4][5] The French Culture and Communication Minister Audrey Azoulay said, "Maurice Failevic stood for an activist approach to cinema, based on his commitment to political and social engagement.