Farming Movies

This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen...

As the global economics of dairy farming has winnowed out most small and medium-sized dairies, the surviving farmers confront pressures to intensify...

US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.

For decades, migrant workers have worked the fields of Immokalee, harvesting tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, oranges and other produce that is then...

Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down...

The average age of the U.S. farmer has reached 60. Half of America's farmland will change ownership in the next 15 years. Our nation faces a...

A documentary about Swiss mountain folk.

An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the...

A look at food security in the Hawaiian islands

To be born without freedom. Waiting your turn to be crushed into nuggets. It is a matter of choosing: To pray, or kill them first.

Geoff Lawton takes you into the world of Permaculture and explains the basic concepts for beginners.

For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to...

A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of...

Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial...

This feature-length educational film teaches you how to set up your own permaculture orchard at virtually any scale. We recognize the limitations of...

Against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis, Jacob Beaton, a passionate Indigenous entrepreneur, has embarked on a remarkable...

Struggling financially and dependant on his livestock, The Farmer must search for his lambs when they are stolen the day before the big market.

This film explores food sustainability, how farmers' markets build community, and why local food matters. Filmmaker Dr. Benjamin Garner is an...