Homefront is a TV show that takes place in a fictional city during World War II. It follows the lives of various characters and explores their personal struggles, relationships, and challenges on the homefront. The show delves into topics such as love, prejudice, racism, friendship, and class struggle, providing a nuanced portrayal of life during wartime. It also touches upon themes of family, sacrifice, and the impact of war on individuals and communities.
A documentary series that explores the lives and achievements of influential industrialists in America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The series delves into the rise of men like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford, who played pivotal roles in shaping America's economy and society. Through reenactments, interviews, and historical analysis, the show highlights the struggles and innovations that led to the country's industrial transformation.
A young man falls in love with a married woman in 1830s Germany. Years later, they reunite in Mexico but face challenges from their past.
The Inheritor is a movie about a female executive who inherits her father's steel business and becomes the target of a neo-fascist minister. As she tries to reform the steel industry and protect her family's legacy, she must navigate political intrigue and face threats from the minister and his hitman. Along the way, she forms alliances with a reporter and a social reformer, and discovers the true meaning of power and love.
In post-World War I France, a military officer searches for the identity of an unknown soldier who died during the war. Along the way, he encounters two women who become entangled in a love triangle. As he unravels the mystery, he navigates the post-war landscape and confronts the aftermath of the war.
During World War II, a wealthy Jewish couple in Hungary is faced with the impending threat of the Gestapo. They must find a way to survive and escape while also protecting their wealth and secrets.
In 19th century Pittsburgh, an Irish immigrant's unrequited love for a wealthy family's daughter sets off a series of events that will change their lives forever.
24 City tells the story of a formerly state-owned industrial factory in Chengdu, China that is being dismantled to make room for a luxury apartment complex. The film focuses on the lives of current and former workers, highlighting the changes they have faced and the memories they hold onto. It paints a portrait of China's working class and the challenges they face in the modern era.
A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the insights of experts with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the Midwest where the steel industry once flourished, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas desolate. It is here where Donald Trump finds some of his most fervent supporters.
Near the town of Longwy two adolescent boys were exploring an old steel factory when they discovered a corpse in a ventilation duct.The victim, was worker of this steel factory, union activist and also volunteer at the free radio "Lorraine Coeur d'acier" and died 40 years ago.Lorraine Coeur d'acier was the most important free radio in the winter 1978-1979 when 12.000 workers of the steel industries of Lorraine lost their jobs.
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a steel-town grifter named Wayne gets involved in a dangerous game of deception with a coal miner named Dietrich. As their lives intertwine, they navigate the treacherous world of the steel industry and try to overcome bankruptcy and the Wall Street crash. Along the way, Wayne finds solace in the arms of a honky-tonk singer and gets a second chance at redemption.
When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and has to go abroad to be cured, he hands his shares to Timoleon Adamantas (Orestis Makris), his brother, a teacher, with whom he hasn’t spoken for almost 30 years. Timoleon, being an honest and goodhearted man, aided by his brother’s secretary, Margarita (Martha Karagianni), with whom his son Andreas is in love, finds out a number of great administrative irregularities. Immediately, he throws out his brother’s number one assistant, Kleftodimos (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) and Margarita as well and puts everything in order.
A drama centered around a wealthy French family that faces bankruptcy and struggles to maintain their privileged lifestyle.
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
Deep in the heart of the Moselle, in the Uckange furnace Park, is a crime scene as spectacular as it is baffling. The victim is the former Director of the site. When the relentless but sensitive Clément Leroy, captain of the criminal section of the Metz gendarmerie, sets out to investigate, he reconnects with his childhood love, Laure Thouvenin, the victim's daughter and a specialist in industrial history. As this free and unconventional woman becomes increasingly involved in the case, she and Leroy unravel the shocking story of their respective families running over three generations.
Set in the Soviet Union in the 70's. The plot is based on real industrial conflicts in the life of the country's largest metallurgical plant, where there are many acute problems. Modernization of Soviet metallurgical industry causes a clash between old style Communist bosses and the new generation of engineers and managers.
The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.