Walk on water

TGV Paris-Bordeaux, la ligne de tous les records(fr)

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge(xx)

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Fall 2(en)

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

Paris on the Seine(en)

A history of the bridges of Paris, through modern views and historical engravings.

Opening of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge(xx)

Extraordinary pictures of an accident with a royal audience at Middlesbroughs magnificent Transporter Bridge.

A Bridge at the Edge of the World(tr)

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile, on the eastern border of Turkey, in a Kurdish city between the borders of Iran and Iraq that is left to its destiny, in Hakkari, Zap River was taking lives since there were no passage on it.

Abegweit(en)

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovations that made this mammoth project one of the most impressive engineering feats in Canadian history.

Blood Sisters(sv)

Julia and Johanna, from the high-rise flats of Rosengård in Malmö, inseparable for as long as they remember. Curled up beside each other at night, carrying equal memories of abduction and abuse in their home country Azerbaijan. In Blood Sisters we follow their journey from twin sisters in symbiosis to young women trying to stand on their own feet.

Every Face Has a Name(sv)

Recalls the day when Holocaust survivors took their first steps into freedom, unaware of their future. Every Face Has a Name puts a name on those nameless faces and lets them recount their feelings of that day, the 28th of April, 1945.

Öresund Bridge - Wind, Water and Visions(sv)

Partway through the building of the Öresund Bridge this documentary looks at the process for what has been built so far and looks into the future at what opportunities the bridge might bring.

The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough(en)

A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.

Maillart's Bridges(de)

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a traditional journalistic structure, director Heinz Emigholz's spellbinding film reads more like ethereal visual poetry, allowing the beauty of Maillart's work to speak for itself.

The Three Failures(en)

A fairy tale about communism, social-democracy, and capitalism. (The sequel to Wandering Marxwards)

Aces & Knaves(en)

Aces & Knaves is a documentary about mental gymnastics, competition, and cheating in bridge - the most complex game ever invented by the human mind.

Les allumés du pont Jacques-Cartier(fr)

The story behind the technical prowess deployed to light up the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.

Angel of Nanjing(zh)

The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is one of the most famous bridges in China. It is also the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. For the past 11 years Chen Si has been patrolling this bridge, looking to provide aid for those who've gone there to end their lives. Incredibly, he has saved over 300 people since he began - nearly one every two weeks.

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1(en)

The Battle of Arnhem, fought in the early autumn of 1944, remains without a doubt the most hotly debated battle of the North West European Campaign, both then and now. From its inception in the sixteen cancelled airborne operations during August, we will chart the problems, many of which were ignored by men desperate to get into battle, the compromises and mistakes that pitched lightly armed and ill equipped paratroopers and glider infantry into an unequal struggle against an SS panzer troops. We follow the eight mile route that 2 Para took to reach the bridge at Arnhem, slipping through the German defences.In Part 2, a separate film we look at their epic battle.

Dans les coulisses du métro de Paris(fr)

El puente(es)

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

Storstrøm Bridge(da)

A wordless ode to the Storstrom bridge.