1 Século de Energia

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

Herää Helsinki!

Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

Arkadia

In a world where farming is mechanized and farm animals are fed with products coming from across the globe, a young shepherd is trying to keep his practice sustainable by using ancestral ways to raise his flock.

Giant Coal Dumper

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded.”

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

悲兮魔兽

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.

An Eastern Market

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Fishball Revolution

An asylum seeker from Hong Kong builds a new life for himself in Glasgow, using his passion for street food to maintain his cultural identity.

Look at Life: Market Place

A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets.

Pazar i kasapi

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.

Pour ne pas oublier l'invisible

Industrializácia Slovenska

Pieseň strojov

Imphal Bazaar

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

Look at Life: Shopping by the Ton

A visit to Smithfield Market, Covent Garden and Billingsgate, at their busiest time, the early morning.

La Vie moderne

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

Herds West

Short film on the cattle industry and movement of cattle along the production line.

Beyond Fordlândia

An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage.

A Visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s Biscuit Works

A look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of dough are rolled, then cut, shaped, and readied for baking. The camera then continues to show further events throughout the work day.

Sunshine in Soho

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.