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...

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...

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

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...

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

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

Documents the evolution of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch from concept drawings, to fabrication of its stainless steel sections, to...

Focuses on an open-pit mining operation. Shows huge haulage trucks, pointing out existing and potential hazards involved in their operation....

A man named Walt who has recently completed building a fallout shelter in his home, a project initiated due to the threat of nuclear war during the...

A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church.

Leaky home experts John Gray and Roger Levie uncover the shocking truth about the dreadful and dangerous state of many apartment buildings in New...

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...

This late 1940s/early 1950s rather graphic color film about carelessness and safety operating heavy machinery is presented by Caterpillar.

A short, impressionistic documentary about the extremely precise process behind the creation of an autoclave (a reaction container) for a nuclear...

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

Filmmaker Geertjan Lassche follows a construction project in the heart of Rotterdam, from the first foundation pile up until completion.