Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard

Rebuilding Titanic

June 2011 •English

Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.

A Dream of Iron

February 2014 •Korean

Korea's past was whale worship; its present is industry. Is the future whales AND industry?

Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship

April 2022 •French

The virtually untold story of the supersize steamship’s construction: how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city.

From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

November 1988 •German

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions of working people in opposing social orders. Using the example of shipyard workers, fishermen, the brigade and family of a trade union active cook and unemployed person of various ages and professions in Newcastle on the one hand and a brigade of crane operators of the Warnowwerft and fishermen of the Warnemünde cooperative on the other hand, insights into the way of life and attitudes of people of our time are to be conveyed.

1970

December 2021 •Polish

Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the police use their truncheons and then their firearms. The story of a rebellion from the point of view of the oppressors.

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

October 2019 •German

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Shipyard

June 2009 •English

Shipyard is a landmark documentary covering the creation and life of Bellingham, Washington's wooden boat shipyard, which was built in response to the Axis threat of WWII, it's continued growth through the '50's and '60's, as well as it's innovative role in the development and production of fiberglass boats, including patrol riverboats for the Vietnam war.

Arctic London

January 1929 •English

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

The Occupation of Cockatoo Island 1989

Invalid date •English

Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.

Shipyard

December 1935 •English

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.

7 mill. HK – en film om Burmeister & Wain

March 1943 •Danish

The Coast of Commerce

May 1962 •English

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

The New Horizon

January 1959 •English

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

Le Normandie, un géant à la française

September 2019 •French

The Last Rites

November 2008 •Bengali

A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year, hundreds of ships are sent to these yards. And every year, thousands of people come to these yards in search of jobs. Risking their lives to save themselves from hunger, they breathe in asbestos dust and toxic waste. The ship has to die and man has to help it die, as if man and vessel were united in common bondage. The Last Rites bears testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

January 1971 •English

The UCS struggle is a campaign film supporting the fight to retain their jobs by the workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards who developed a new weapon for waging this fight – the occupation and the work-in. The film was screened at the time at meetings attended overall by 25,000 workers. It includes a speech by Jimmy Reid.

The Launch of the Punta Medanos at Wallsend

February 1950 •English

Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.

Emmalou's First Year

February 1965 •English

A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.

Pozdrav Volgo-Donu

January 1954 •Slovak

Den sista båten

December 1983 •Swedish

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.