Watch boom town: how merthyr made the world on Soap2day. A unique mix of natural resources, daring investment, the fierce 'Merthyr spirit', global wars and a drive to innovate all transformed this valley town from rural idyl into an industrial superpower.
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In the 1920s, Western Electric Company ordered a series of studies to be conducted at their plant in Cicero, Illinois. At first they wanted to see...
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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...
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An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the...
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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...
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A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about...
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Heavily dependent on imports, Europe is seeking to develop its production of lithium, an element that is essential to the energy transition. Focus on...
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Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history: the Industrial Revolution. He explains the unique economic,...
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A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s...
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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...
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This is the portrait of an industrial city with its collapses, mutations, landscapes and language. A film that features René Magritte, a camp...
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A short documentary following a daring band of unlikely explorers embarking on a quest to uncover the forgotten mines of Cornwall, only to unearth an...