Manufacturing Movies

An exploration of the past and future of the steel industry in America.

American Made Movie looks back on the glory days of U.S. manufacturing when there was a more balanced relationship between the goods produced and cons...

In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the...

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the aircr...

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles th...

The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.

This short film presented by the Reynolds Metals Company details how aluminum is manufactured and illustrates the seemingly endless uses of this versa...

A short film about axe making in Oakland, Maine. It documents the process of creating fine axes in the Emerson Stevens shop -- the last axe factory to...

This public television documentary examines the passionate life and career of Elbert Hubbard, a businessman who in 1895 established a socially progres...

History of yellow tobacco cultivation in the regions of Joliette, Berthier and Trois-Rivières. The documentary describes the care and work required fo...

Jettingen Germany is home to Ludo Fact, one of the world's largest manufacturers of board and card games. This documentary shows how a board game make...

An insider's look on the making of Penn's tennis balls, from their creation in a factory to the final stages of quality control.

In the 1800s, brickmaking was one of the largest manufacturing industries in Australia. Hoffman's Brickworks in Brunswick, Victoria, was a leader of t...

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.