Construction Movies

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her...

An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the...

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel in its time and remains so today. This documentary travels from Palmyra to the Genesee River, stopping along...

Documents the evolution of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch from concept drawings, to fabrication of its stainless steel sections, to...

For more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fearlessly...

Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was...

With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning...

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...

The award winner Japanese architect Toyo Ito designed the International Baroque Museum in Puebla, Mexico. He is well known for his majestic buildings...

Treats drafting as a means of visual communication and a key to organized training and planning. Discusses the importance of drafting in various...

A documentary film about Seoul City Hall Construction. The construction project has a hard going in every way. A city plan, excessive administrative...

Chronicling the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and restoration of the New York City skyline, with a focus on the construction workers who...

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.