1951-01-01
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10.0Before we run out of gasoline, we will no longer have phosphorus for industrial agriculture. No fertilizer, no harvest! And in 300 years, humanity will be history...
The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator from California and a nationalistic Japanese politician is further complicated by concerns about the cumulative effect of pesticide use in both American and Japanese agriculture.
5.6World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.
0.0This film about agricultural advances in the USSR was meant to serve as a teaching aid. Featuring documentary footage and animation.
A film about the experiences that Czechoslovak peasants gained on a study trip to the Soviet Union.
Documentary film about the advantages of joint farming in unified agricultural cooperatives.
Document about the experiences of peasants from the first joint harvests of the unified agricultural cooperative in Vinařice.
7.0Pajo is a hardworking, lonely but also very rich farmer. His son Toma was, however, bored with country life and tried to seek fortune in the city. Short on money, Toma returns to the farm for a handout while Pajo tries to convince him to stay.
0.0Farm families in Lestock, Saskatchewan, have pooled their resources so that rising operating costs will not drive them off their land. By pooling their land, their equipment, their livestock, and farming as a cooperative, they are able to live as they choose, to maintain their standard of living, and even to have some spare time left over to enjoy. An engaging look at a novel approach to big-scale farming.
0.0In California’s Central Valley, tucked between the county jail and the shooting range, 100 Mexican-American farmworking families live, love and strive at the Artesi II Migrant Family Housing Center. Until every December, that is, when they’re asked to leave.
5.1Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
0.0In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides. Over the course of 18 months they documented the everyday lives and struggles of the crofters they lived among, whom were even then a vanishing breed. The film is in English and Gaelic. This carefully observed documentary by filmmakers Jack Shae and Allen Moore is a poetic ethnographic film in the style of their mentor, Robert Gardner (“Dead Birds”). It follows the rhythm of life on a wind-swept island in the Outer Hebrides through the four seasons and in the filmmakers’ observation of the day-to-day struggles of a vanishing society we see the deep-time legacy of their kind. The film is in English and Gaelic.