Farming Movies

  • 1943
    Windbreaks on the Prairies

    Windbreaks on the Prairies

    Windbreaks on the Prairies

    01943HD

    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...

    Windbreaks on the Prairies
  • 1957
    De wijdgetakte boom

    De wijdgetakte boom

    De wijdgetakte boom

    01957HD

    Short documentary on the life of farming in Belgium in the mid fifties.

    De wijdgetakte boom
  • 1939
    Cane Sugar

    Cane Sugar

    Cane Sugar

    01939HD

    US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.

    Cane Sugar
  • 1939
    Forgotten Victory

    Forgotten Victory

    Forgotten Victory

    01939HD

    This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to...

    Forgotten Victory
  • 1985
    The Neglected Miracle

    The Neglected Miracle

    The Neglected Miracle

    01985HD

    Indigenous farmers in Peru, Nicaragua, Italy, France, Australia and New Zealand share their intimacy with the land and the seeds they have nurtured...

    The Neglected Miracle
  • 1994
    Erik and Sigvard: A year in Småland

    Erik and Sigvard: A year in Småland

    Erik and Sigvard: A year in Småland

    01994HD

    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...

    Erik and Sigvard: A year in Småland
  • 1981
    Grain Elevator

    Grain Elevator

    Grain Elevator

    01981HD

    This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies....

    Grain Elevator
  • 1970
    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden

    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden

    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden

    01970HD

    Filmmaker Claudia Hefner showcases the Kramerterhof, an Alpine estate which Sepp Holzer has transformed from an ordinary farm into a paragon of...

    Sepp Holzer's Secrets of Eden
  • 2001
    The Agro Rebel: Permaculture in the Salzburg Alps

    The Agro Rebel: Permaculture in the Salzburg Alps

    The Agro Rebel: Permaculture in the Salzburg Alps

    02001HD

    Sepp Holzer explains some of the innovative, labour-saving agricultural techniques he applies at his farm in the Eastern Alps of Salzburg, Austria.

    The Agro Rebel: Permaculture in the Salzburg Alps
  • 1937
    The Battle for Miggershausen

    The Battle for Miggershausen

    The Battle for Miggershausen

    01937HD

    This technically quite well-made cartoon from pre-war Nazi Germany is a commercial (or propaganda piece) for Volksempfänger ("people's...

    The Battle for Miggershausen
  • 1970
    Pig Hunt

    Pig Hunt

    Pig Hunt

    01970HD

    "Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest...

    Pig Hunt
  • 2005
    A Farm for the Future

    A Farm for the Future

    A Farm for the Future

    02005HD

    Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers...

    A Farm for the Future