Generální zkouška

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

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Document about the achievements of unified agricultural cooperatives in Slovakia. In the form of an excursion, he takes the viewer around individual cooperatives in order to convince him of the success of new working methods in agriculture.

Agitka about a peasant who joined a unified agricultural cooperative when he became convinced of the benefits it provides.

A film about the experiences that Czechoslovak peasants gained on a study trip to the Soviet Union.

Oslobodená dedina

Documentary film about the advantages of joint farming in unified agricultural cooperatives.

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front. Utilizes newsreel footage of battles and fell into disfavour with propaganda minister Goebbels because of it's lack of emphasis on Adolf Hitler.

Vesnice na rozcestí

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.

Anaïs is 24 and nothing can stop her. Neither the bureaucratic rules of administration, nor the misogynistic teachers, nor the out-of-order tractor, nor the whims of the weather. One day she will be a farmer and grow her own aromatic and medicinal herbs. The film follows this hard liner, all alone against the rest of the world. She doesn’t care.

A film about the importance of beet brigades. It shows the preparation of beet seed and the course of the growing season of the sugar beet, especially the moments when farmers cannot do without the help of part-time workers.

Documentary about the harvest of 1950 conceived as a celebration of the joint work of Czechoslovak cooperatives.

Ženy do boja za mier

A slide about new agricultural machinery. He demonstrates the latest type of beet harvester, harrow, seeding and planting machine.

A film about the work of the unified agricultural cooperative in Poběžovice, which became the winner of the JZD competition in 1950.

King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

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