This is a list of documentary films about agriculture. A

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is the cultivation of

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Documentary films about agriculture

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Bangaarada Manushya ''Bangaarada Manushya'' ( kn, ಬಂಗಾರದ ಮನುಷ್ಯ, ''Golden Man'') is a 1972 Indian Kannada language film based on T. K. Rama Rao's novel of same name. Ramarao was known for his crime and detective novels, but this film was a ...

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All in This Tea ''All in This Tea'' is a 2007 documentary film co-directed by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht, about Chinese tea. It follows the American tea connoisseur David Lee Hoffman as he travels to remote tea-growing areas of China. Hoffman attempts to inter ...

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Bananas!* ''Bananas!*'' is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP. The film was crit ...

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The Biggest Little Farm ''The Biggest Little Farm'' is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by John Chester. The film profiles the life of John Chester and his wife Molly as they acquire and establish themselves on Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, California.

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A Cow at My Table ''A Cow at My Table'' is a 1998 documentary film examining Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat. It covers the conflict between animal rights advocates and the meat industry, and their respective attempts to influence consumers. It was ...

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Dirt! The Movie ''Dirt! The Movie'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. It was inspired by the book ''Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth'' by William Bryant Logan. The docume ...

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Everyday Life in a Syrian Village ''Everyday Life in a Syrian Village'' ( ar, الحياة اليومية في قرية سورية) is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay. The film was ranked #55 on the Dubai International Film Festival's 2013 list of the top 10 ...

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Farmland Agricultural land is typically land ''devoted to'' agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous with bo ...

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The Farmer's Wife ''The Farmer's Wife'' is a 1928 British silent romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Harker. It is adapted from a 1916 play of the same name by British novelist, poet an ...

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Food, Inc. ''Food, Inc.'' is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner

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The Fruit Hunters ''The Fruit Hunters'' is a 2012 feature documentary film about exotic fruit cultivators and preservationists. It is directed by Yung Chang and co-written by Chang and Mark Slutsky, and inspired by Adam Leith Gollner's 2008 book of the same name ...

'' *'' The Future of Food'' *'' The Garden'' *'' God's Country'' *''

The Grain That Built a Hemisphere ''The Grain That Built a Hemisphere'' is a 1943 short animated propaganda film about corn produced by Walt Disney for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.Shale, Richard. (1982). Donald Duck joins up: The Walt Disney Studio dur ...

'' *'' The Great Resistance'' *''

H-2 Worker ''H-2 Worker'' is a 1990 documentary film about the exploitation of Jamaican guest workers in Florida's sugar cane industry. It was directed by Stephanie Black, and won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in the 1990 fe ...

'' *'' Harvest (1967)'' *'' The Harvest (2010)'' *''

The Harvest Shall Come ''The Harvest Shall Come'' is a 1942 British documentary film about agricultural work between 1900 and World War II, using the story of a farm laborer to illustrate the importance of agriculture, and the importance of supporting workers in this o ...

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Henry Browne, Farmer ''Henry Browne, Farmer'' is an American short film, short propaganda film produced in 1942 about African-American contributions to the war effort during World War II. It is narrated by Canada Lee. The film begins with stock footage of soldiers ...

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Het is een schone dag geweest '' Het is een schone dag geweest '' is a 1993 Dutch documentary film directed by Jos de Putter Jos de Putter (Terneuzen, 1959) is a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter who primarily makes Dutch documentary films. He studied poli ...

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In Grave Danger of Falling Food ''Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems'' is an Australian television series of documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each of the seven films examines the work of a living person who is a r ...

'' *'' Keep the Hives Alive'' *'' King Corn'' *'' Let It Be'' *'' Life at the End of the Rainbow'' *'' The Moo Man'' *''

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Mugabe and the White African ''Mugabe and the White African'' is a 2009 documentary film by Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson and produced by David Pearson & Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock. It has won many awards including the Grierson 2010 and been BAFTA and Emmy Nominated. The film ...

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Old Partner ''Old Partner'' (; lit. "Cowbell Sound") is a 2008 South Korean documentary film directed by Lee Chung-ryoul. Set in the small rural town of Hanul-ri in Sangun-myeon, Bonghwa County, North Gyeongsang Province, the film focuses on the relationship ...

'' *'' Olives and Their Oil'' *'' Our Daily Bread'' *''

Paper Wheat ''Paper Wheat'' is a play by the 25th Street Theatre Centre about the hard lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the wheat pools and the Co-op movement on the Canadian Prairies. The most successful stage show in Saskatchewan h ...

'' *'' Peaceable Kingdom'' *''

Pig Business ''Pig Business'' is a 2009 investigative documentary and exposé by environmental activist and former actress Tracy Worcester. The film presents the findings of Worcester's four year investigation into the hidden costs associated with pig facto ...

'' *'' A Place in the Land'' *''

The Plow That Broke the Plains ''The Plow That Broke the Plains'' is a 1936 short documentary film that shows the cultivation of the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada following the Civil War and leading up to the Dust Bowl as a result of farmers' exploitati ...

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The Real Dirt on Farmer John ''The Real Dirt on Farmer John'' is a 2005 documentary film directed by Taggart Siegel about the life of Midwestern farmer John Peterson, operator of Angelic Organics. It tells the history of the eccentric farmer's family farm in rural Caledonia, ...

'' *'' The River'' *'' Standing Silent Nation'' *'' Strawberry Fields'' *'' Sweetgrass'' *'' The Tale of the Wonderful Potato'' *'' That Should Not Be: Our Children Will Accuse Us'' *'' Touchstone: Dancing With Angels'' *'' Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern'' *'' We Feed the World'' *''

The World According to Monsanto ''The World According to Monsanto'' is a 2008 film directed by Marie-Monique Robin. Originally released in French as ''Le monde selon Monsanto'', the film is based on Robin's three-year-long investigation into the corporate practices around the wor ...

'' *'' World of Plenty''

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