Industry Movies

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

A Canadian union and workers in a GM plant mobilize to save it in what will become the fight of their lives.

The video is accompanied by a richly detailed article that adds more depth to the documentary. If there’s any question about why Hollywood is...

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

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

The Singer sewing machine, international icon and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, helped put the town of Clydebank on the map. Over the course...

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

An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.

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

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

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...

Introduction to the oil industry of India in the post-colonial period.