Farming Movies

  • 1985
    Canada Vignettes: The Move

    Canada Vignettes: The Move

    Canada Vignettes: The Move

    01985HD

    In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home...

    Canada Vignettes: The Move
  • 1956
    Put Una Money for There

    Put Una Money for There

    Put Una Money for There

    01956HD

    Advertising cartoon advising the farmers of West Africa to save their money in Barclay's banks.

    Put Una Money for There
  • 1943
    Windbreaks on the Prairies

    Windbreaks on the Prairies

    Windbreaks on the Prairies

    01943HD

    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...

    Windbreaks on the Prairies
  • 2022
    Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford

    Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford

    Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford

    02022HD

    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.

    Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford
  • 1963
    The Airy Tomb

    The Airy Tomb

    The Airy Tomb

    61963HD

    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...

    The Airy Tomb
  • 2020
    Higher Grounds

    Higher Grounds

    Higher Grounds

    02020HD

    Panama is reimagining coffee, and driving new standards for both quality and economics. Explores variety, farming practice, and processing...

    Higher Grounds
  • 2018
    From Seed to Seed

    From Seed to Seed

    From Seed to Seed

    02018HD

    When Terry and Monique left the opera to pursue their true passion - ecological farming - their story of community and resilience took center stage....

    From Seed to Seed
  • 1939
    Forgotten Victory

    Forgotten Victory

    Forgotten Victory

    01939HD

    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...

    Forgotten Victory
  • 2005
    A Farm for the Future

    A Farm for the Future

    A Farm for the Future

    02005HD

    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...

    A Farm for the Future
  • 1970
    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden

    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden

    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden

    01970HD

    Filmmaker Claudia Hefner showcases the Kramerterhof, an Alpine estate which Sepp Holzer has transformed from an ordinary farm into a paragon of...

    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden
  • 1986
    Fragile Harvest

    Fragile Harvest

    Fragile Harvest

    01986HD

    How safe is the future of the world’s food? This documentary explores a growing crisis in world agriculture. Plant breeding has created...

    Fragile Harvest
  • 1970
    CurryStone 2013: Proximity Designs

    CurryStone 2013: Proximity Designs

    CurryStone 2013: Proximity Designs

    01970HD

    Proximity Designs is a sustainable development group that works to improve the lives of the rural poor in Myanmar. Proximity Designs boosts...

    CurryStone 2013: Proximity Designs
  • 2014
    At the Foot of the Rainbow

    At the Foot of the Rainbow

    At the Foot of the Rainbow

    5.22014HD

    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...

    At the Foot of the Rainbow
  • 2022
    My Wheat

    My Wheat

    My Wheat

    02022HD

    The farmers' busy summer is impossible to experience without personal experience. I always want to shoot a film recording the farmers' busy summer,...

    My Wheat
  • 1939
    Cane Sugar

    Cane Sugar

    Cane Sugar

    01939HD

    US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.

    Cane Sugar
  • 2014
    Urine's Superpowers

    Urine's Superpowers

    Urine's Superpowers

    5.52014HD

    That smelly, pale yellow liquid that people flush down the toilet every day is an industrial fertilizer, a diagnostic tool, a medicine, a renewable...

    Urine's Superpowers
  • 1981
    Grain Elevator

    Grain Elevator

    Grain Elevator

    01981HD

    This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies....

    Grain Elevator
  • 2012
    After Winter, Spring

    After Winter, Spring

    After Winter, Spring

    12012HD

    Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial...

    After Winter, Spring
  • 1924
    The Last Word in Chickens

    The Last Word in Chickens

    The Last Word in Chickens

    71924HD

    This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print....

    The Last Word in Chickens
  • 1988
    The Goddess and the Computer

    The Goddess and the Computer

    The Goddess and the Computer

    01988HD

    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...

    The Goddess and the Computer