Construction Movies

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...

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Short documentary film produced by Eugène Pirou.

When a fire destroys a beloved Chinatown bookstore, its hyper-independent owner learns that community is necessary for survival.

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...

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

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

This PSA-style film from the 1970s titled “Use Your Head” was presented by the Construction Safety Association of Ontario to eliminate...

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