Industry Movies

An original portrayal of a small Czech village where – as the locals put it – an UFO has landed in the form of a kilometre-long silverish...

In 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Co. closed its plant in Martinsville, Virginia, after 83 years in...

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a...

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...

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.

Animated industrial movie about the steel industry.

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

It's the musical phenomenon of the moment: K-Pop, short for "Korean Pop," has taken the world by storm in just a few years. But behind the powerful...

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

In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was...

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

Lingerie--a word that conjures up silk, seduction and sensuality, the items that can create a curve or a mood. Underwear is the first thing to touch...

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

Birkenhead's sights, shopping opportunities and industries.

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.

The environmental problems caused by fracking in America have been well publicized but what's less known are the gas industry's plans for expansion...