Fortune Seekers (1956)
• February 3rd, 1956 • 0h 8min
Documentary
Overview
This short film celebrates the hard work, tenacity, and ingenuity of inventors. Highlighted are some seemingly small inventions that have become part of daily life.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Story of Doctor Carver
Released on: 1938-06-18
History, Documentary, Drama
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perh...
Becoming Cousteau
Released on: 2021-10-22
Documentary
Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decad...
Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World
Released on: 1994-01-01
Documentary
Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...
SlingShot
Released on: 2014-03-14
Documentary
An intimate and inspirational portrait of Segway inventor, Dean Kamen, and his 15-year quest to solv...
Intelligent Trees
Released on: 2017-09-27
Documentary
Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? German fore...
Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle
Released on: 2019-05-02
Documentary
Josef Ganz, editor of trade journal Motor-Kritik, amazed Germany by appearing in a revolutionary tin...
The Creative Brain
Released on: 2019-04-15
Documentary
Neuroscientist David Eagleman taps into the creative process of various inventors, while exploring b...
The Sun Queen
Released on: 2023-04-04
Documentary
Chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes worked for nearly 50 years to harness the power of the s...
The Invention of the Ford V8 Engine
Released on: 1932-12-31
Documentary
1932 Documentary showcasing the Ford V8 engine.
101 Gadgets That Changed the World
Released on: 2011-06-15
Documentary
The alarm clock. The personal computer. The smartphone. The radio. You know the greatest gadgets of ...
Britain's Greatest Invention
Released on: 2017-06-15
Documentary
BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and...
The Invention of Dr. NakaMats
Released on: 2009-11-08
Documentary
NakaMats is an unlikely character made for the movies, an eccentric 80-year-old Japanese inventor re...
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
Released on: 2010-09-17
Documentary, Music
His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: ba...
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Released on: 2022-05-12
Documentary, History
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...
The Gutenberg Enigma
Released on: 2017-09-25
Documentary, History
A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute
Released on: 1937-12-31
Documentary
Color footage of inventor George Washington Carver at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Dr. Carver is ...
The Story of Alfred Nobel
Released on: 1939-02-18
History, Documentary, Drama
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...
Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science
Released on: 2017-04-05
Documentary, History
New evidence suggests that many of Leonardo da Vinci's ideas can be traced to other scientists as fa...
Omni: An Act against Gravity
Released on: 2018-05-01
Documentary
When a YouTube video of Alexandru Duru's hoverboard flight goes viral, the young engineer sets a Gui...
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Released on: 2025-01-31
Documentary
John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intell...