Automation in the Czechoslovak automotive industry (1957)

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. El ingeniero Preston Tucker sueña con diseñar el coche del futuro, pero su innovadora visión se verá continuamente saboteada por sus propias expectativas, poco realistas, y por los poderosos magnates de la industria automovilística de Detroit.

Como consecuencia de la crisis económica, una fábrica de automóviles de un pueblo de Pensilvania se ve obligada a cerrar. Para poner remedio a la situación, su capataz Hunt viaja a Tokio con el objetivo de que la firma nipona Assan adquiera la quebrada empresa. Lo conseguirá, pero ahora los trabajadores deberán adaptarse a la mentalidad laboral japonesa y pasar por un complicado proceso de reciclaje.

Documental que denuncia básicamente las razones por las que los coches eléctricos han sido borrados del mapa desde el prometedor comienzo que los EV tuvieran en los años 90.

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.

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.

A documentary about the history of American dependence on oil.

Una dinastía de fabricantes de automóviles, repleta de escándalos, adulterios, incestos y luchas de poder. Adaptación al cine de la novela "The Betsy" de Harold Robbins. El patriarca de la familia, Loren (Laurence Olivier), contrata al piloto de carreras Angelo (Tommy Lee Jones) para construir un vehículo más eficiente, con la oposición de su nieto (Robert Duvall). Pero las cosas se complicarán todavía más cuando Angelo inicie relaciones con dos mujeres de la vida de Loren: su bisnieta y su amante.

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.

In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

Stefan Dubechek (Brian Dennehy) es un campesino checo que emigra a los EEUU, donde un primo le consigue trabajo en una mina... pero, las aspiraciones de Stephen Dangos -como comenzará a llamarse en la tierra del tío Sam- son ilimitadas y con una fuerte voluntad se puede llegar muy lejos.

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.

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

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

Documental sobre la tecnología emergente de los coches autónomos y las grandes preguntas que plantean: ¿qué es el control y en quién nos convertimos al cederlo a las máquinas?

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.

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

En 1908 Henry Ford soñaba con un mundo en el que cada persona tuviera un coche. Hoy, esta visión es casi una realidad. Los coches causan más de un millón de muertes anuales en accidentes de tráfico y una cifra mucho mayor como consecuencia de la polución que generan. Estos datos convierten el sueño de Ford en una pesadilla. El automóvil ha pasado de ser un medio de transporte a convertirse en símbolo de independencia y estatus. Es un miembro más de la familia. Un estilo de vida. Una adicción.