Cultural Preservation Movies

  • 1985
    Canada Vignettes: The Move

    Canada Vignettes: The Move

    Canada Vignettes: The Move

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    In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home...

    Canada Vignettes: The Move
  • 1975
    Under the Protection of the State

    Under the Protection of the State

    Under the Protection of the State

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    The film was shot in an old, decrepit building where dozens of guest-workers' families live. The owner, a local influential politician, has avoided...

    Under the Protection of the State
  • 2022
    Our Vanishing Americana: A South Carolina Portrait

    Our Vanishing Americana: A South Carolina Portrait

    Our Vanishing Americana: A South Carolina Portrait

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    Photographer Mike Lassiter journeys across South Carolina capturing the stories of historic, often family-run businesses that line main streets from...

    Our Vanishing Americana: A South Carolina Portrait
  • 2016
    Going Going Gone: Nick Broomfield's Disappearing Britain

    Going Going Gone: Nick Broomfield's Disappearing Britain

    Going Going Gone: Nick Broomfield's Disappearing Britain

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    Two iconic British buildings - the Wellington Rooms in Liverpool and the Coal Exchange in Cardiff - are threatened with demolition and Nick...

    Going Going Gone: Nick Broomfield's Disappearing Britain
  • 2012
    After Winter, Spring

    After Winter, Spring

    After Winter, Spring

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    Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial...

    After Winter, Spring
  • 2020
    Preserving Worlds

    Preserving Worlds

    Preserving Worlds

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    WorldsChat was 1995's hottest 3D chat program. Somehow, it's still online. Take a tour through the strange worlds its users built, and meet an...

    Preserving Worlds
  • 2022
    Measured in Echoes

    Measured in Echoes

    Measured in Echoes

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    Measured in Echoes comments on the decaying infrastructure found in the United States and our obsession to preserve what once was instead of funding...

    Measured in Echoes
  • 2023
    Les Îles Canaries, nées du feu et bercées par l'océan

    Les Îles Canaries, nées du feu et bercées par l'océan

    Les Îles Canaries, nées du feu et bercées par l'océan

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    Les Îles Canaries, nées du feu et bercées par l'océan
  • 2021
    Arctic Summer

    Arctic Summer

    Arctic Summer

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    ARCTIC SUMMER is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers...

    Arctic Summer
  • 2017
    The Way of the Shaman Drum

    The Way of the Shaman Drum

    The Way of the Shaman Drum

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    During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions...

    The Way of the Shaman Drum
  • 2013
    Missing Green

    Missing Green

    Missing Green

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    A solitary woman walks through the eerie night-time landscape of Dublin's Cork Street, a street once quiet and residential, now a...

    Missing Green
  • 2013
    Old St. Patrick's Church: Chicago Renaissance Story

    Old St. Patrick's Church: Chicago Renaissance Story

    Old St. Patrick's Church: Chicago Renaissance Story

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    Mike Leonard tells the inside story of how the west Loop’s St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, known to residents as Old St. Pat's,...

    Old St. Patrick's Church: Chicago Renaissance Story
  • 1970
    Basic Elements

    Basic Elements

    Basic Elements

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    The documentary explores the world of culture, nature and gastronomy through one chef's eyes across the marshlands of the Venetian Lagoon.

    Basic Elements
  • 2019
    Maine's Home Movies

    Maine's Home Movies

    Maine's Home Movies

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    An essay film celebrating the work and home life of a rural state in the early twentieth century. Focusing on "the gaze" of amateur filmmakers and...

    Maine's Home Movies
  • 2018
    Battle Over Bears Ears

    Battle Over Bears Ears

    Battle Over Bears Ears

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    At its heart, it’s a battle for homeland and sovereignty. Bears Ears, a remote section of land lined with red cliffs and filled with juniper...

    Battle Over Bears Ears
  • 2020
    Der vergessene Tempel von Banteay Chhmar

    Der vergessene Tempel von Banteay Chhmar

    Der vergessene Tempel von Banteay Chhmar

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    Der vergessene Tempel von Banteay Chhmar
  • 1956
    Přesun kaple svaté Máří Magdaleny

    Přesun kaple svaté Máří Magdaleny

    Přesun kaple svaté Máří Magdaleny

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    Přesun kaple svaté Máří Magdaleny