Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard

A Dream of Iron

2014

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

From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

1988

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

2021

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

2019

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.

Den sista båten

1983

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

Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship

2022

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.

Pozdrav Volgo-Donu

1954

Arctic London

1929

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

Shipyard

1935

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

The New Horizon

1959

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

The Last Rites

2008

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.

The Occupation of Cockatoo Island 1989

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

Hein Petersen, vom Schiffsjungen zum Matrosen

1917

Le Normandie, un géant à la française

2019

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

1971

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.