Industry Movies

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at...

As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.

A documentary about the laying of the first transatlantic telephone line.

Facing deteriorating machines and the advance of new technologies, Argentine printing presses are closing up their shops. A group of young designers...

From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film heritage stored in the British Film Institute...

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

This short film from 1946 presents an outline of the fur trade's history and the commercial use of fur in Canada. A thirst for fur by the kings and...

In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed...

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by...

The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.

An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.

Britain feels under-funded and falling apart. On the eve of the election, as politicians debate the causes, economist Tim Harford looks at what the...

It's 1948 and hydro-electric power is transforming Scotland's Grampians.

A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer...