Farming Movies
- 1985
Canada Vignettes: The Move
Canada Vignettes: The Move01985HD
In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home...
- 1956
Put Una Money for There
Put Una Money for There01956HD
Advertising cartoon advising the farmers of West Africa to save their money in Barclay's banks.
- 1943
Windbreaks on the Prairies
Windbreaks on the Prairies01943HD
This short film serves as a cautionary tale to farmers who recklessly cut down trees on their land. When prairie farmers engaged in this practice to...
- 2022
Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford
Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford02022HD
Patrick Kielty explores the untold story of Harry Ferguson and Henry's Ford's remarkable handshake agreement and how it led to a $250 million lawsuit.
- 1963
The Airy Tomb
The Airy Tomb61963HD
Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone...
- 2020
Higher Grounds
Higher Grounds02020HD
Panama is reimagining coffee, and driving new standards for both quality and economics. Explores variety, farming practice, and processing...
- 2018
From Seed to Seed
From Seed to Seed02018HD
When Terry and Monique left the opera to pursue their true passion - ecological farming - their story of community and resilience took center stage....
- 1939
Forgotten Victory
Forgotten Victory01939HD
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to...
- 2005
A Farm for the Future
A Farm for the Future02005HD
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers...
- 1970
Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden
Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden01970HD
Filmmaker Claudia Hefner showcases the Kramerterhof, an Alpine estate which Sepp Holzer has transformed from an ordinary farm into a paragon of...
- 1986
Fragile Harvest
Fragile Harvest01986HD
How safe is the future of the world’s food? This documentary explores a growing crisis in world agriculture. Plant breeding has created...
- 1970
CurryStone 2013: Proximity Designs
CurryStone 2013: Proximity Designs01970HD
Proximity Designs is a sustainable development group that works to improve the lives of the rural poor in Myanmar. Proximity Designs boosts...
- 2014
At the Foot of the Rainbow
At the Foot of the Rainbow5.22014HD
Fifteen years ago 1830s muskrat trapper Dannie Mcnoun, loves Mary and sends his best friend, Jimmy, to win her over for Dannie. Jimmy married her...
- 2022
My Wheat
My Wheat02022HD
The farmers' busy summer is impossible to experience without personal experience. I always want to shoot a film recording the farmers' busy summer,...
- 1939
Cane Sugar
Cane Sugar01939HD
US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.
- 2014
Urine's Superpowers
Urine's Superpowers5.52014HD
That smelly, pale yellow liquid that people flush down the toilet every day is an industrial fertilizer, a diagnostic tool, a medicine, a renewable...
- 1981
Grain Elevator
Grain Elevator01981HD
This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies....
- 2012
After Winter, Spring
After Winter, Spring12012HD
Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial...
- 1924
The Last Word in Chickens
The Last Word in Chickens71924HD
This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print....
- 1988
The Goddess and the Computer
The Goddess and the Computer01988HD
For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near...