King Corn (2007), In Search of Israeli Cuisine (2016), She Shears (2018), The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005), The Biggest Little Farm (2018), Mother India (1957), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), Days of Heaven (1978) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Agriculture movies.
Storyline: On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what human cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.—Louise Rosen Ltd.
Plot Keywords: documentary, social justice, human rights, exploitation, poverty, inequality, globalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: There is so much interest in food these days yet there is almost no interest in the hands that pick that food. In the US, farm labor has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the nation's most vulnerable people. While the legal restrictions which kept people bound to farms, like slavery, have been abolished, exploitation still exists, ranging from wage theft to modern-day slavery. These days, this exploitation is perpetuated by the corporations at the top of the food chain: supermarkets. Their buying power has kept wages pitifully low and has created a scenario where desperately poor people are willing to put up with anything to keep their jobs.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, labor rights, exploitation, social justice, human rights, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW. Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and the planet.—GoodThing Productions
Plot Keywords: documentary, future, environment, sustainability, climate change, optimism, technology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder." To empower the audience, the documentary provides viewers with tangible solutions they can apply to their everyday lives. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message - but will we listen?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, environment, nature, ecology, agriculture, sustainability, climate change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Explores a thesis: that the deep colored, oak-aged taste of Bordeaux wines has become the world standard, following the writing of critic Robert Parker, the magazine "Wine Spectator," the consulting work of Michel Rolland of Pomerol, and the money of Mondavi, a publicly-traded corporation based in Napa with a family history of wine making. Wine makers worldwide, many using Rolland as a consultant, pursue this structure, color, and taste - to the detriment, argue some, of wine that should reflect the character of the land where the grape is grown, including the lighter Burgundy. A few old wine makers, from Aniane, Sardinia, and Argentina offer this argument.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, globalization, france, italy, cultural conflict, tradition, family business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Modern British dairy farms must get bigger and bigger or go under but Farmer Stephen Hook decides to buck the trend. Instead he chooses to have a great relationship with his small herd of cows and ignore the big supermarkets and dairies. The result is a laugh-out-loud emotional roller-coaster of a film, a heart warming tearjerker about the incredible bonds between man, animal and countryside in a fast disappearing England.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, united kingdom, independent film, sustainability, rural life, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Herders guide an enormous flock of sheep to summer pastures on their final drive through the Beartooth Mountains.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, agriculture, montana, nature, landscape, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chuck Peterson is a young slacker with big dreams. Disowned by his family and ignored by his peers, he diligently pursues his dreams of writing a fantastic children's book to become famous and strike it rich. But due to a bipolar disorder and lack of creative talent, he slums his way through life relying on small time scams to keep himself afloat. When his gangster roommate makes him an offer he can't refuse, Chuck immediately takes the chance to clear himself of all his debts. But things go from bad to worse when the plan makes Chuck a prime murder suspect among a plethora of pornographers and terrorists!—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, science, evolution, desire, marijuana, ecology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian finish.
Plot Keywords: california, france, competition, father-son relationship, dream, underdog, passion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, farm life, female coming-of-age, novel adaptation, motherhood, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.—National Center for Jewish Film
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, rural, agriculture, family, tradition, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Plot Keywords: documentary, soviet union, propaganda, revolution, history, politics, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richard Pryor plays three roles: Leroy Jones, a poor orange-picker who gets laid off for accidentally joining the workers' union during one of their demonstrations; Leroy's father, whom Leroy leaves behind with the rest of his family to go to Los Angeles; and Reverend Lenox Thomas, who gets Leroy's wife Annie Mae pregnant during Leroy's absence. In Los Angeles, Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home; he is a manager at the company but is now distant from his former pals. Though married, he falls in love with labor organizer Vanetta and must divide his time between her and Annie Mae. When he discovers that Annie Mae is pregnant by Reverend Thomas, he puts the moves on Mrs. Thomas.—mts77
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, social class, race, labor rights, african american, working class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, music, rural life, american film, black and white, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While British men are fighting World War II, three female volunteers (Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel) labor on an elderly man's farm.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, women, farm, britain, historical, romance ...
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