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 hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.

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Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and...

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After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs ar...

Facing deteriorating machines and the advance of new technologies, Argentine printing presses are cl...

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A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of ...

Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived fo...

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once a...

This is a documentary that tells about the history of Ålvik as an industrial town. It is the story o...

This short film from 1946 presents an outline of the fur trade's history and the commercial use of f...