Industry Movies

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.

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...

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.

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...

The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose...

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

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.

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

The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All...

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

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

The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic...

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

Animated industrial movie about the steel industry.

Birkenhead's sights, shopping opportunities and industries.

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