Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard

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

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

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

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year,...

Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

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

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