Urban Development Movies
- 1974
Herbie Rides Again
Herbie Rides Again6.1391974HD
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
- 2020
Undine
Undine6.492020HD
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a...
- 2006
Tekkonkinkreet
Tekkonkinkreet7.42006HD
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the...
- 2004
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream7.22004HD
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...
- 2015
The Noise
The Noise102015HD
Underground people who exhale toxic gas appear in Tokyo's S-Ward, which is dealing with construction noise from urban development projects. Everyone...
- 2024
Terry's Little Village
Terry's Little Village02024HD
Terry Wilson is a 70-year-old lifelong resident of Meadowvale Village, Ontario's first heritage district. As development looms and begins to destroy...
- 2014
The Barrier
The Barrier02014HD
Recent graduate, Arthur Macdonald, narrowly avoids a collision with a truck when he takes a short-cut to work. In his job as traffic safety engineer...
- 1964
Changing Landscapes
Changing Landscapes7.41964HD
A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about...
- 2024
Mountains
Mountains7.52024HD
While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with...
- 1965
City Under Pressure
City Under Pressure01965HD
The city of Edmonton is under pressure to deal with the problems related to housing, development, and traffic.
- 2013
Rotterdam 2040
Rotterdam 204092013HD
Rotterdam 2040 is a film about the city’s future, departing from the principle of Gyz La Rivière that you can’t look ahead without...
- 2022
GONE
GONE02022HD
As development encroaches on a farming community, they struggle with the loss of their heritage and land.
- 2007
Radiant City
Radiant City6.3752007HD
Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...
- 2013
Gut Renovation
Gut Renovation4.52013HD
Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 years, the filmmaker was...
- 1973
High Rise Building Problems
High Rise Building Problems01973HD
This is a 1970’s era, color movie discussing problems fire departments have with high rise buildings. It opens with a massive high-rise tower...
- 1990
Places for the Soul
Places for the Soul01990HD
An intimate portrait of Christopher Alexander, a critic of modern architecture on a lifelong quest to build harmonious, livable places in...
- 1995
Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi
Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi01995HD
Yirrkala is an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in Northeast Arnhem Land. It was established as a Methodist mission in 1935 and over the...
- 2011
Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits7.6152011HD
Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits" tells the story of Istanbul and other Mega-Cities on a neo-liberal course to destruction. It follows the story of...
- 2015
The New World
The New World02015HD
A couple moves from the country to istanbul to get proper schooling for their son, who has Down syndrome. However, the house they move to will be...
- 1982
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick8.51982HD
A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...