Movies and TvShows featuring "land-reclamation" theme.

When dozens of babies in Corby are born with disabilities, their mothers embark on a battle to hold those responsible to account.

In 1955, Northfork, Montana is about to be flooded by the waters of a new dam. As the town is evacuated, a group of orphan boys, a priest, and a government official try to save a dying boy's soul. The film explores themes of death, symbolism, and relocation.

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a silent film about an engineer who works to develop the desert wasteland through irrigation. The film explores a romantic triangle between the engineer, a land developer, and a settler woman. It also includes elements of a classical Western, with scenes of sandstorms, rattlesnakes, and a payroll robbery. The story follows the characters as they navigate through various challenges, including a panic, lynching, flood, evacuation, and dust storms. Along the way, the engineer becomes a dam builder and adopts an orphan. Based on a novel, the film showcases the struggles and triumphs of transforming the barren Colorado River region.

A thought-provoking documentary that explores the escalating tensions between China and the United States, particularly related to the South China Sea dispute and China's land reclamation efforts. The film examines the historical context, cultural clashes, economic power dynamics, and military implications of this potential conflict.

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).

This documentary film provides an insight into the Zuiderzee works, a large-scale land and water engineering project carried out in the Netherlands during the 20th century. It showcases the construction and impact of the Zuiderzee Works, an ambitious project that involved the construction of dams, dykes, and polders to reclaim land from the sea and protect the Netherlands from flooding.

This Traveltalk series short visits four villages in the Netherlands.