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Kanopy
89
8.2
/198435/
79
/3654/
81
/2972/
4.2
/235499/
97
/140/
92
/3876/
98
/14/
cc age 12+

Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
8.5
/282032/
82
/4436/
82
/3930/
4.3
/246885/
98
/113/
95
/1798/
96
/4/
cc age 6+

Modern Times (1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
poster
Kanopy
82
8.2
/11895/
81
/240/
78
/238/
4.4
/37795/
100
/5/
62
/5/
91
/20/

I Am Cuba (1964)
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.4
/39555/
81
/1416/
80
/656/
4.2
/35726/
75
/77/
87
/439/
65
/24/

Samsara (2011)
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
6.7
/2118/
64
/78/
68
/40/
3.7
/19221/
99
/71/
87
/25/

Caught by the Tides (2025)
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
70
7.4
/5249/
70
/115/
70
/109/
3.8
/4871/
100
/19/
80
/83/

À Nous la Liberté (1931)
In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.
poster
80
70
7.6
/4581/
76
/126/
78
/363/
4.0
/12583/
91
/351/

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
66
7.2
/3151/
72
/88/
71
/52/
3.6
/2142/
84
/63/
80
/438/
79
/16/

Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.
poster
MGM Plus
66
7.2
/9288/
72
/276/
73
/175/
3.7
/9912/
56
/9/
81
/197/
57
/13/

Powaqqatsi (1988)
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.6
/1344/
65
/57/
65
/44/
3.5
/7355/
87
/23/
60
/5/
75
/9/

Unrest (2022)
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography, and the telegraph are transforming the social order, and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money, and the government are not all but fictions.
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Hoopla
65
6.7
/4919/
62
/81/
61
/113/
3.5
/1702/
77
/86/
59
/335/
80
/26/
cc age 18+

Lady Chatterley (2006)
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
poster
76
60
7.6
/2759/
75
/52/
75
/110/
3.9
/3914/
78
/212/

The Mattei Affair (1972)
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
6.4
/28009/
70
/958/
62
/362/
3.1
/52093/
37
/60/
73
/2931/
32
/15/
cc age 18+

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
poster
72
44
7.6
/2265/
70
/50/
71
/52/
3.6
/1098/

Rocks (2003)
The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they're only mildly amazed by the ongoings in the valley below, they've got their own little problems to deal with - But all of a sudden, Mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behavior starts to threaten Hew's and Kew's stoic peacefulness...
poster
74
43
7.6
/2737/
72
/21/
62
/43/
3.7
/1599/
88
/11/

Oblomov (1980)
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?
poster
72
43
7.4
/1711/
64
/40/
74
/43/
3.8
/1324/

Crac (1980)
A wooden rocking chair serves as a tool to delve through the history of Quebec in the last century.
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Kanopy
67
41
6.8
/1156/
60
/24/
64
/41/
3.6
/2497/
80
/5/
61
/5/

Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas (1930)
An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and the vibrant athletic culture of its time
poster
60
36
6.7
/1425/
59
/13/
55
/28/
3.4
/609/
61
/49/
42
/18/
73
/18/

Sentimental Destinies (2000)
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.
poster
Kanopy
64
33
6.6
/923/
63
/12/
60
/35/
3.5
/1640/

Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
poster
71
30
8.0
/523/
65
/39/
78
/22/
3.2
/1561/

Under the Dome (2015)
Chai Jing's documentary about the massive smog problem in China. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits, has been compared with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies, steel producers and coal factories, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters.
poster
69
28
7.2
/650/
64
/14/
66
/26/
3.8
/1133/

A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society".
poster
72
28
6.8
/206/
82
/4/
65
/8/
89
/9/
59
/17/

Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
poster
Hoopla
27
3.9
/179964/
44
/7877/
46
/4143/
1.1
/252629/
5
/192/
30
/14904/
20
/33/
cc age 9+

The Last Airbender (2010)
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
poster
62
26
6.9
/249/
67
/12/
45
/8/
3.7
/1448/
5.7
/1786/

The Death Lullaby (1985)
The story of child violence and the national violence. And the problem of the old Japanese environmental pollution.
poster
Kanopy
65
13
7.3
/122/
57
/7/
54
/5/
3.9
/861/

Turumba (1981)
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
poster
Kanopy
64
12
6.5
/269/
61
/6/
62
/14/
3.5
/343/

Stride, Soviet! (1926)
Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, film is a tableau of Soviet life and achievements in the period of reconstruction following the Civil War of 1917-1921.
poster
62
?
6.4
/323/
55
/6/
62
/7/
3.4
/337/

Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
poster
?
5.8
/9/
60
/1/

Prospecting for Petroleum (1946)
All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man.
poster
?
10
/1/
90
/1/

The Last Fistful of Land (1966)
'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia. Originally commissioned by the Sardinian regional government as a celebratory piece on the 'miraculous' effects of the 'Piano di Rinascita della Sardegna' (Sardinia's Rebirth Plan), the film instead shows an island still 'standing still in time', barely affected by the painful oxymoron of the inevitable changes taking place.
poster
?
95
/1/

Work (1978)
A 70s collective film examining the significance of work for people and society, explaining the changes that have taken place in working life. With a soundtrack by great jazz composer Edward Vesala
poster
?
8.0
/7/
90
/1/

Forests (2022)
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back the stories of this forest.
poster
?
4.8
/16/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Man on the Land (1951)
Oil Industry PR film from UPA. The story of man's conquest of the soil through the ages with background of narration and ballads. Starts with prehistoric times and ends in the present, showing how oil-powered machines have banished the threat of famine.
poster
?
7.2
/57/
33
/3/
72
/6/

Birds of America (2022)
In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi River. Audubon was also a gifted painter. His life’s work in the form of the classic book ‘Birds of America’ is an invaluable documentation of both extinct species and an entire world of imagination. During the same period, early industrialisation and the expulsion of indigenous peoples was in full swing. The gorgeous film traces Audubon’s path around the South today. The displaced people’s descendants welcome us and retell history, while the deserted vistas of heavy industry stretch across the horizon. The magnificent, broad images in Jacques Loeuille’s atmospheric, modern adventure reminds us at the same time how little - and yet how much - is left of the nature that Audubon travelled around in. His paintings of the colourful birdlife of the South still belong to the most beautiful things you can imagine.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
?
7.9
/104/
83
/5/
70
/3/

Gluten, the public enemy? (2020)
Why wheat, one of the staple food of humanity, is becoming a poison for a growing number of people today ? An investigation on the emergence of a new gluten-free products market. And yet, the real cause of this sudden tsunami of grain intolerance remains a mystery. How come all of a sudden, many of us no longer support cereal, highly nutritious in protein? Have recent changes in our eating habits triggered the epidemic? Is wheat not the good old grain we've been eating for 10,000 years? Scientists, activists and committed farmers are trying to uncover the truth on the real qualities of industrial foods.
poster
63
?
6.2
/218/
65
/2/

Cannibal Island (2009)
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.
poster
?
6.1
/51/
60
/3/

Karl Marx – Der deutsche Prophet (2018)
On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, the docu-drama paints a multifaceted portrait of the most influential German thinker of modern times. The world-famous actor Mario Adorf embodies the equally contradictory and contradictory world spirit, in the dichotomy of prophetic confidence and fear of failure. An exciting cinematic journey through his life and work.
poster
?
6.5
/32/
10
/1/

The Age of Ballyhoo (1973)
A television documentary about the Twenties told through the use of Hollywood movies, audio recordings and newsreels of the period. Narrated by Gloria Swanson.
poster
63
?
7.3
/153/
60
/3/
57
/3/

Wrong-doers (1979)
After the 1848/49 War of Independence in the Transdanubian region. János Hegyesi, a late veteran of the War of Independence, is given the task by the chief bailiff Mérei to round up the gangs of outlaws who are rioting in Somogy County.
poster
53
?
5.9
/120/
60
/6/
40
/7/

Drux Flux (2008)
Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcus…
poster
?
6.7
/81/
34
/5/

O.K. Mister (1979)
In a remote village in the "land of roses and nightingales" one day surfaces a stranger: William Knox D'Arcy. To enact his plan for exploiting the wealth and the natural resources of this land, he sends after his cronies who descend upon the village in a big balloon. Among them is Cindrella a lady of electrifying beauty who is enlisted to keep the illiterate and lecherous villagers under her charm and make them follow D'Arcy's plans...
poster
fuboTV
67
?
6.0
/231/
50
/8/
68
/9/
93
/5/

Isolated (2013)
Five world class surfers travel to New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves, but end up discovering so much more.
poster
?
7.0
/94/
33
/3/
42
/5/

The Factory (1981)
A tanner, swamped with debts, must abandon his trade and go work in the local factory.
poster
60
?
6.2
/238/
50
/4/
52
/10/
3.6
/287/

The Passengers (1999)
The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain, sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers, who, for the moment, are rushing headlong toward their destiny. The commuters and their observer have double lives. Once they step off this streetcar, the real-life dramas begin. Each has his or her style of living or dying…
poster
Hoopla
?
6.8
/34/
55
/2/

Going Green (2010)
N/A
poster
?
7.2
/64/
62
/4/
80
/6/

Bendito Machine IV: Fuel the Machines (2012)
N/A
poster
36
?
6.3
/110/
10
/1/

The Golden Equator (1956)
This short film focuses on the evolving country of Ecuador.
poster
?
6.6
/6/
40
/2/
60
/1/

It's Only the Beginning (1951)
Part-live-action, part-animation short about the importance of industrial research in a capitalist society, with a focus on the development of nylon fiber.
poster
?
6.1
/94/
30
/2/
57
/3/

High Voltage (1981)
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.


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