Industry Movies

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

Discipline and productivity are more regimented in Japan than in many other parts of the world. For the Japanese, survival means doing things...

SCHICHT (SHIFT) is both a reckoning and a search for traces of the past. Layer by layer the film unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family -...

In 2006, the American aluminium company ALCOA decides to build their plant in Greenland. The massive billion dollars’ project is the...

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his...

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...

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

Shows the interdependence of all workers, jobs, and mechanization in the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished product, focusing on...

Short documentary on the wool industry.

A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team...

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

A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process,...

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...

Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-made peninsula extending four kilometres into the...