This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, Nadia Collot's film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that conquers new markets through corruption and manipulation. To confront the tobacco cartel, anti-smoking groups are organizing and scoring points, but the fight remains fierce. With ist diverse viewpoints, shocking interviews and riveting images, The Tobacco Conspiracy deftly defines the issues in a complex situation where private interests and the public good collide. Enlightening and engrossing, this documentary is a hard-hitting critique of an industry gone mad.
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Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.
100 billion throwaway plastic bottles are sold by Coca-Cola each year. Panorama looks into the company's pledge to reduce plastic waste.
A 1980s educational video that teaches the view how to communicate more effectively in the workplace.
This is a video essay. It is a brief analysis of the connection between the individual and the self, the individual and the changing environment, and the individual and other individuals through three clips: Part 1: 1980 video of Andy Warhol eating a burger Part 2: Canva clips edits Part 3: Clip from Jacques Tati's "Parade", 1974
The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.
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Introduction to the oil industry of India in the post-colonial period.
In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age.
A man is fascinated by the structures and environments surrounding him and willing to break external and internal limitations to approach them.
An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.
Find out how the cars were crafted and discover the secret family stories behind the most famous marques including Riley, Standard, Triumph and Jaguar. Legendary racers Rosemary Smith, Pat Quinn and Norman Dewis share their memories of competing Coventry’s cars in some of the world’s most dangerous motorsport events. And, meet the people passionate about preserving the city’s extraordinary motoring heritage.
It's 1948 and hydro-electric power is transforming Scotland's Grampians.
Donkeys inhabit and communicate with each other - and the filmmakers - in a Sanctuary.
An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.
A man grows insane when he hears the beeping of a Monarch telephone, and he seeks help of a psychiatrist.
This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile.