Industry Movies

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

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...

Film sponsored by the Troy, New York–based manufacturer of Arrow shirts to explain its reasons for moving its business down south. The true...

Surveys the role of chemistry in American life and the central role of the people, products, and plants of Monsanto.

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

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

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...

A historical overview of Sisak, the city on three rivers, from the Roman era to the post-WWII industrialization.

A portrait of Hamilton, the Pittsburgh or Birmingham of Canada. This is a rich and colourful subject that encourages imaginative treatment on the...

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

This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print....

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

Promotes television sets and the broadcast of New York's first regularly scheduled programs by providing a clinical look at the inner workings of...

This short documentary features Newfoundland fisherman Billy Crane, who speaks frankly on the state of the inshore fishery and how the lack of...

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

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...

Short documentary on the wool industry.

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

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