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 The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many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.

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

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

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

Find out how the cars were crafted and discover the secret family stories behind the most famous mar...

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, a...

Facing deteriorating machines and the advance of new technologies, Argentine printing presses are cl...
A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made fo...

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980...
Introduction to the oil industry of India in the post-colonial period.

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel p...

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

This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any sp...

What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a con...

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few inter...

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in In...

Film sponsored by the Troy, New York–based manufacturer of Arrow shirts to explain its reasons for m...