Movies: Construction

  • 1960
    Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter

    Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter (1960)

    Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter

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    A man named Walt who has recently completed building a fallout shelter in his home, a project initiated due to the threat of nuclear war during the Cold War era. Walt demonstrates to his friends the multi-functionality of the shelter, which can also ...

    Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter
  • 2019
    Great Pyramid K 2019

    Great Pyramid K 2019 (2019)

    Great Pyramid K 2019

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    Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was them, have achieved those shapes in the sculpture sphinx of Sénousret made of Migmatite material, whic...

    Great Pyramid K 2019
  • 2006
    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2) (2006)

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)

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    Highlighting the canal’s quiet beauty and fascinating people, Part 2 travels from the Genesee Waterways to Spencerport, Brockport, Holley, and Lockport– taking to the trails and the water, on everything from the historic Sam Patch tour boat to Luxury...

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)
  • 1965
    High Steel

    High Steel (1965)

    High Steel

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    A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk Indians from Kahnawake, near Montréal, famed for their skill in erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers...

    High Steel
  • 2002
    Blue Vinyl

    Blue Vinyl (2002)

    Blue Vinyl

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    With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold set out in search of the truth about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), America's ...

    Blue Vinyl
  • 2012
    An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka

    An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka (2012)

    An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka

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    In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his life to temple architecture. His insistence on the gargantuan timescale of linking life to the next mi...

    An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka
  • 2023
    Eiffel, les derniers secrets

    Eiffel, les derniers secrets (2023)

    Eiffel, les derniers secrets

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    Eiffel, les derniers secrets
  • 1989
    The Shark Who Knew Too Much

    The Shark Who Knew Too Much (1989)

    The Shark Who Knew Too Much

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    Samuel Plottner is a stockdealer who only wants to get richer, but suddenly things starts to get complicated: His sons meets their longlost mother which not only is after Samuels money, but also can tell them what happened to them the day they were b...

    The Shark Who Knew Too Much
  • 2022
    Drives Me Crazy

    Drives Me Crazy (2022)

    Drives Me Crazy

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    All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way....

    Drives Me Crazy
  • 1974
    One Man's War

    One Man's War (1974)

    One Man's War

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    Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships....

    One Man's War
  • 2000
    Building Materials

    Building Materials (2000)

    Building Materials

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    Documentary made as part of the exhibition “Materiais de Construção” (FCG, 1998). The exhibition's curator, Jorge Molder, and the participating artists, Markus Raetz and Pieter Laurens Mol, are interviewed. Topics such as the artists' biography and t...

    Building Materials
  • 1998
    Abegweit

    Abegweit (1998)

    Abegweit

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    A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovations that made this mammoth project one of the most impressive engineering feats in Canadian history...

    Abegweit
  • 1963
    La Rose et le Barrage

    La Rose et le Barrage (1963)

    La Rose et le Barrage

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    A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church....

    La Rose et le Barrage
  • 1950
    The Gambler

    The Gambler (1950)

    The Gambler

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    This late 1940s/early 1950s rather graphic color film about carelessness and safety operating heavy machinery is presented by Caterpillar....

    The Gambler
  • 1944
    The Old Texas Trail

    The Old Texas Trail (1944)

    The Old Texas Trail

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    In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless outlaws who are trying to take over the reins of a stage coach line....

    The Old Texas Trail
  • 2021
    A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters

    A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters (2021)

    A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters

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    Leaky home experts John Gray and Roger Levie uncover the shocking truth about the dreadful and dangerous state of many apartment buildings in New Zealand. Buildings that look sound turn out to be seriously defective, costing millions to fix, and in ...

    A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters
  • 1990
    Standard

    Standard (1990)

    Standard

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    Does someone remember that project of López Rega’s which, in 1975, thought up the construction of a Great Homeland Altar where all mythical figures of Argentine history could be in the same building? From San Martín to Perón on his pinto horse. From ...

    Standard
  • 2014
    Tour Eiffel : La Grande Épopée

    Tour Eiffel : La Grande Épopée (2014)

    Tour Eiffel : La Grande Épopée

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    Tour Eiffel : La Grande Épopée
  • 1981
    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House (1981)

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

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    Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum. This first-hand observation of traditional tools and woodworking te...

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House
  • 2006
    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 1)

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 1) (2006)

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 1)

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    The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel in its time and remains so today. This documentary travels from Palmyra to the Genesee River, stopping along the way to visit the people and places that make the canal so special. Canal historian Thomas Grasso...

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 1)