Ray er 12 år og tredje generasjons dampmaskin-ingeniør. Han får tilsendt en mystisk kule som viser seg å inneholde uante dampkrefter. Denne kulen må ikke havne i feile hender. Da kan det gå verden skikkelig ille. Ray må gjennom de mest halsbrekkende prøvelser, så vel fysiske som psykiske, for hvem kan man egentlig stole på - sin egen far, farfar eller seg selv?
Landstrykeren stempler inn og skjeller ut inne i en fabrikk der innretninger som en personalmatemaskin kanskje en dag vil kunne redusere lunsjpausen til kun 15 minutter. Kastet ut i de arbeidsløses rekker, slår han seg sammen med en omstreifer (Paulette Goddard) for å jakte på lykken og en fast inntekt. Han finner ulykken som nattevakt på rulleskøyter, syngende kelner hvis hysteriske sang er uforståelig, fengselsfugl og mye mer. Til slutt, når Landstrykeren og omstreiferen går arm i arm mot en usikker fremtid, vet vi at de verken har funnet lykken eller en fast inntekt, men noe mye mer verdifullt; hverandre.
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate teams up with F. Gary Gray, award-winning director of the Universal Pictures biopic Straight Outta Compton. Illustrated by LucasFilm-Certified comic book artist Pop Mhan, this animated short follows the story of the Industrial Revolution in London, 1868 and the birth of organized crime, led by Assassin’s Creed Syndicate protagonist, Jacob Frye and his sister, Evie.
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before mechanisation, a frenzy of canal-building saw a new army of workers carve out the British landscape, digging out hundreds of miles of waterways using picks, shovels and muscle.
An orphan in 18th century London lashes out against the harrowing child labor market.
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the evolution of the American city, from the initially small farming village, to the eventually hectic, congested metropolis, to the future planned suburban community.
Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history: the Industrial Revolution. He explains the unique economic, social and political conditions that by the 19th century, led to Britain becoming the richest, most powerful nation on Earth. It was a time that transformed the way people think, work and play forever.