Grain Elevator (1981)
• January 1st, 1981 • 0h 16min
Documentary
Overview
This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this film is a simple, honest vignette on the distinctive wooden structures that would eventually become a symbol of the Prairie provinces.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Wales
Released on: 1958-06-10
Documentary
Wales prides herself in her wealth of natural resources, foundries, mills, and factories. Beyond thi...
Hold on Tight
Released on: 2011-07-28
Documentary
A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like ...
Where do they all go?
Released on: 2015-04-13
Documentary
94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decorat...
How to Blow Up a Helicopter (Ayako's Story)
Released on: 2009-04-14
Documentary
Interview of Ayako Fujitani and her dad Steven Seagal.
Passaic Mosaic
Released on: 2008-06-17
Documentary
A short documentary, looking at life in Passaic, New Jersey, whilst the film Be Kind Rewind (2008) i...
Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert
Released on: 1951-01-01
Documentary
Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo
Tshiuetin
Released on: 2016-09-08
Documentary
Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations...
this river
Released on: 2016-10-05
Documentary
Join a grassroots collective of volunteers as they search Winnipeg’s Red River and its banks for clu...
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
Released on: 1966-12-21
Documentary
A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix
Karihwanoron: Precious Things
Released on: 2017-04-18
Documentary
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and spec...
The Ossuary
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skele...
A Slice of Lynch
Released on: 2007-10-30
Documentary
David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while se...
Journey into Amazing Caves
Released on: 2001-03-01
Documentary
Journey into Amazing Caves is an extraordinary IMAX adventure into the depths of the earth to uncove...
A Trip to Paramountown
Released on: 1922-07-10
Documentary
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
The Last Word in Chickens
Released on: 1924-01-01
Documentary
This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was p...
Thot-Fal'N
Released on: 1978-06-27
Documentary
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...
Sonaggios
Released on: 2025-04-27
Documentary
In the Sardinian town of Tonara, where the ancient art of crafting cowbells teeters on the edge of e...
Dolphins
Released on: 2000-04-14
Documentary
From the banks of the Bahamas to the seas of Argentina, we go underwater to meet dolphins. Two scien...
Ein Ehrenmann geht…
Released on: 1971-02-12
Documentary
The film follows the career of Karl-Theodor Molinari from major in the Wehrmacht to general in the B...