Construction Movies

An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the...

A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church.

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

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

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

Focuses on an open-pit mining operation. Shows huge haulage trucks, pointing out existing and potential hazards involved in their operation....

Filmmaker Geertjan Lassche follows a construction project in the heart of Rotterdam, from the first foundation pile up until completion.

A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet...

The award winner Japanese architect Toyo Ito designed the International Baroque Museum in Puebla, Mexico. He is well known for his majestic buildings...

Documentary made as part of the exhibition “Materiais de Construção” (FCG, 1998). The exhibition's curator, Jorge Molder,...