Construction Movies

A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build to transform their hometown community. The film...

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...

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...

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her...

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...

Documentary made as part of the exhibition “Materiais de Construção” (FCG, 1998). The exhibition's curator, Jorge Molder,...

Chronicling the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and restoration of the New York City skyline, with a focus on the construction workers who...

A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet...

Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter, as well as Ed Hobleman and Walter Magnuson from the studio inventory group provide commentary on a never-before-seen...

The Heroes of the Massacre River is a powerful documentary that chronicles the stories of the pioneers behind the construction of the historic Canal...

Treats drafting as a means of visual communication and a key to organized training and planning. Discusses the importance of drafting in various...

Drawn again from footage shot in the Torrance Public Library parking lot, Introduction to Crack Sealing 3 remixes material from the first two films...

In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his...

Filmed in the same Torrance Public Library parking lot, Introduction to Crack Sealing 2 reworks the material of the first film into a sharper, more...

Highlighting the canal’s quiet beauty and fascinating people, Part 2 travels from the Genesee Waterways to Spencerport, Brockport, Holley, and...

An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the...

2005-2008. Video. In 2005 San Francisco real estate magnate Angelo Sangiacomo commissioned Strickland to make a movie that would chronicle final...

A documentary film about Seoul City Hall Construction. The construction project has a hard going in every way. A city plan, excessive administrative...