Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

The Story of the Weeping Camel

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to chan...

Skyscraper

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Buildin...

If You Build It

A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build to transform their h...

Monument to the Dream

Documents the evolution of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch from concept drawings, to fabrication of its s...

High Steel

A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it gro...

Talking Architecture, City: Hall

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

Home Made

Ford Educational Weekly No. 164, produced by the Ford Motor Company about prefabricated houses. A new idea in house buil...

Titanic's Achilles Heel

An expedition looks into whether Titanic's hull had a construction design flaw that caused her to break apart. Featuring...

Tour Eiffel : La Grande Épopée

Cutting Corners

With building collapses happening around the country, activists band together to confront the real estate developers and...

David Macaulay: Pyramid

How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precis...

Shadows of Light

Shadows of Light combines the loud and soft tones of life. The centerpiece is an Austrian mountain pasture where the sum...

Oravská priehrada

Tales of Sand and Snow

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burk...

An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka

In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called th...

Drafting: Occupations & Opportunities

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

Charles Manson, The Church of Satan, The Universal Order & The Process Church of Final Judgment

Out of the spiritual chaos of the 1960s, more strange cults and unorthodox messiahs have emerged than ever. Charles Mans...

Africa Uncensored

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

Drums from the Past

"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellenc...

Blue Vinyl

With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-d...