En 1948, le jeune ingénieur américain Preston Tucker conçoit une automobile révolutionnaire qu'il baptise de son nom. Le succès prévisible déclenche une contre-attaque immédiate des trois grands constructeurs, General Motors, Chrysler et Ford, pour tuer le projet dans l'œuf. Mais Tucker est décidé à ne pas se laisser faire et à réaliser son rêve : il doit absolument réaliser cinquante exemplaires de sa voiture pour que celle-ci existe de fait.

À Hadleyville, Pennsylvanie, l'usine d'automobiles ferme ses portes pendant neuf mois, et l'essentiel des habitants se retrouve au chômage. Une entreprise japonaise, Assan Motors, rachète l'entreprise et fait venir à Hadleyville une équipe de managers japonais, dirigée par Oishi Kazuhiro, un cadre timide et peu considéré par ses collègues. Les employés américains de l'usine sont réengagés, mais mis à l'épreuve. Leur représentant syndical, Hunt Stevenson, va avoir toutes les peines du monde à faire comprendre aux Japonais la façon de travailler avec une main d’œuvre américaine. Pourtant, une amitié se tisse progressivement entre Kazuhiro et Stevenson...

Dans cette adaptation du best-seller d'Harold Robbins, un magnat de l'automobile entreprend avant de disparaître de construire la voiture parfaite en tout point. Pour ce faire, il s'attache les services d'un jeune pilote de course chevronné aussi séduisant qu'ambitieux. Mais la concurrence et certains membres au sein même de l'entreprise ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille.

Au début des années 2000, plusieurs modèles de voitures électriques étaient en circulation en Californie, dont l'EV1, produite par General Motors et mise en location à long terme, puis retirée du marché en 2006. Ce documentaire retrace la mort prématurée de ce véhicule et enquête sur l'importance des lobbies du pétrole dans l'état de Californie.

In 1973, John DeLorean was most likely going to be the next president of General Motors, when he turned his back on his $650,000 a year job and focused on a grander dream... to build his own car company (the first new American car company since 1925). In 1978, DeLorean built the most advanced auto factory in the world in under 18 months, from the ground up in a small suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our generation. The film exposes shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry, and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity, and non-food-based biofuels.

Un immigrant européen devient un maître de l'industrie, mais perd presque sa famille.

PUMP is a documentary that tells the story of America’s addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and explains clearly and simply how we can end it — and finally win choice at the pump. Today, oil is our only option for transportation-fuel at the pump. Our exclusive use of it has drained our wallets, increased air pollution and sent our sons and daughters to war in faraway lands. PUMP shows how, through the use of a variety of replacement fuels, we will be able to fill up our cars — cheaper, cleaner and American made — and in the process create more jobs for a stronger, healthier economy. Narrated by Jason Bateman and featuring notable experts such as John Hofmeister former President of Shell Oil, and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, PUMP will forever change the way you think about your car — and the fuel that powers it.

A mid-level automotive company employee is summoned to the mountain villa of owner Giovanni Nosferatu, only to discover a glossy netherworld where capitalism is the new vampirism, and escape may be impossible.

Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He goes west with the Tyler family, owners of a rival automobile firm, in one of their expensive high speed cars. 

A cinematic exploration of the world of automated vehicles — from their technical history to the personal narratives of those affected by them to the many unanswered questions about how this technology will affect modern society. This documentary features interviews with industry pioneers and scenes with cutting-edge “AVs” in action around the world.

Pickup trucks are essential to the American way of life; manufacturers compete to outsmart, outmaneuver and outlast each other; experts, designers and historians weigh in on the most influential innovations in the truck world over the past 120 years.

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.

The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.

Symboles d’une époque révolue, les voitures sorties des usines d’État du bloc de l’Est sont aujourd’hui très prisées des collectionneurs.

An original portrayal of a small Czech village where – as the locals put it – an UFO has landed in the form of a kilometre-long silverish factory: a Korean Hyundai automobile plant. The village, hitherto famous mostly for its sauerkraut and the “Radegast” beer was thus turned into an industrial zone – the largest greenfield investment project in the Czech Republic’s history. Nonetheless, for a long time many farmers resisted selling the land upon which the factory was now standing. Eventually, they all succumbed under the pressure from the neighbours, and even the anonymous death threats. The filmmakers returned to Nošovice two years after the dramatic property buyouts, at the time when the factory has just started churning out cheap cars. Combining the perspectives of seven characters, they have composed a portrayal of a place suddenly changed beyond recognition that is playful and chilling at the same time: a politically engaged absurd flick about a field that yields cars.

An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumers.

Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.