The City (1939)
• May 26th, 1939 • 0h 44min
Documentary
Overview
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Koyaanisqatsi
Released on: 1983-04-27
Documentary, Drama
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...
Radiant City
Released on: 2007-05-30
Documentary
Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities ...
George Carlin: Doin' It Again
Released on: 1990-06-02
TV Movie, Comedy, Documentary
George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Eup...
British Sounds
Released on: 1970-05-21
Documentary
Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals...
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Released on: 1988-06-17
Documentary, Music
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It f...
Kymatica
Released on: 2009-02-01
Documentary
Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...
Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
Released on: 2018-04-26
Documentary
Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and arc...
The Iron Triangle: Willets Point and the Remaking of New York
Released on: 2017-11-11
Documentary
Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Poi...
Rubble Kings
Released on: 2015-06-19
Documentary
Through archival footage Nicholson tells the story of the real Warriors that walked the streets of N...
Requiem for the American Dream
Released on: 2015-04-18
Documentary
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us ...
The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012
Released on: 2012-10-06
Comedy, Documentary, TV Movie
Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart, 2 podiums, 1 air-conditioned auditorium... In "O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012...
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
Released on: 2022-10-11
Documentary
A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill ...
Assholes: A Theory
Released on: 2019-11-13
Documentary
Some people grapple with the moral challenges of treating human beings decently. Others are just… as...
Philip Roth: Unmasked
Released on: 2013-03-13
Documentary
Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collect...
City Dreamers
Released on: 2018-11-10
Documentary
Urban architecture as seen through the eyes of four female veterans in the field.
Secos
Released on: 2017-10-14
Documentary
Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the det...
Prime Farmland
Released on: 2020-08-01
Documentary
This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise...
The Innocent Door
Released on: 1973-01-01
Documentary
A short documentary about urban planning and the harmonisation of old and new building elements in J...
Shellmound
Released on: 2004-09-19
Documentary, History
“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic c...