Movies: Farming
- 1994
Erik and Sigvard: A year in Småland (1994)
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Brothers Erik and Sigvard live by old traditions - they grow their own food and bake their own bread. The only time they leave their family farm is to buy tobacco and to see the king and queen visit Växjö, but they once biked to nearby Gislaved....
- 2017
Farmers For America (2017)
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The average age of the U.S. farmer has reached 60. Half of America's farmland will change ownership in the next 15 years. Our nation faces a little-known agricultural crisis on an unprecedented scale. Against all odds, this is the story of an eclecti...
- 2021
The Whisper of the Leaves (2021)
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A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodi...
- 2015
Seeding Fear (2015)
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Since Monsanto began selling their patented 'Roundup Ready' genetically modified (GM) seeds they have sued hundreds of farmers for patent infringement. Michael White, a fourth generation farmer and seed cleaner living in the northeast corner of rural...
- 1939
Cane Sugar (1939)
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US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale....
- 1943
Windbreaks on the Prairies (1943)
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This short film serves as a cautionary tale to farmers who recklessly cut down trees on their land. When prairie farmers engaged in this practice to facilitate plowing, they discovered that the trees had served as windbreaks protecting top soil from ...
- 2024
Die Bio-Revolution - Die Karriere der ökologischen Landwirtschaft (2024)
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- 1985
Canada Vignettes: The Move (1985)
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In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home after nearly a half-century of use. The film follows the lifting and transporting of the 9-storey, 200-to...
- 2014
Once Upon a Time (2014)
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Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down when the eldest son falls in love....
- 1969
Children Of The Vine (1969)
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A global nightmare is unfolding as farmers and scientists stand at a crossroads questioning the impacts of pesticides and herbicides on human health. At the center of this controversy is glyphosate, the primary active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup...
- 1942
Hedging (1942)
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Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand....
- 2015
The Sabinal Canyon (2015)
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This 2015 documentary about the history behind the Sabinal Canyon in Texas. The story starts in the Hill Country where Cap. William Ware was given land for his years of service and after moving there started Waresville. After his death the town was...
- 2017
Yellow Heat (2017)
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In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through traditional farming. Their son, Ibrahim, dreams of a different future for himself....
- 1985
Shipbuilder (1985)
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This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen spent ten years building and moving overland a huge iron ship that was to carry him back to his native F...
- 2007
Greening the Desert (2007)
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Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid, salty lowland, despite extremely high temperatures and minimal irrigation. The site is the lowest dryland expanse on Earth: a plain in Jordan, two kilom...
- 1969
Frostlands (1969)
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An 8-year old farm-girl teaches herself to fly, but when her favourite heifer gives birth to a male calf she ends up learning a harder lesson....
- 1975
Wheat Cycle (1975)
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The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or subtitles, the film conveys a sense of unity between the people and the land. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an ...
- 1963
The Airy Tomb (1963)
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Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone in the "grim house nailed to the mountainside", oblivious to the interest shown in him by young girl...
- 1969
Chocolate of Peace (1969)
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Chocolate of Peace depicts the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó's experiences of resistance, via a journey through their processes of organic chocolate production. From the seed to the product, the cacao is the narrative thread that takes us t...
- 1957
De wijdgetakte boom (1957)
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Short documentary on the life of farming in Belgium in the mid fifties....