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The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
, 12minutes
Directed by Winsor McCay
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Winsor McCay

The film opens with a live-action prologue in which McCay busies himself studying a picture of the Lusitania as a model for his film-in-progress. Intertitles boast of McCay as "the originator and inventor of Animated Cartoons", and of the 25,000 drawings needed to complete the film. McCay is shown working with a group of anonymous assistants on "the first record of the sinking of the Lusitania".
Plug & Pray
Plug & Pray (2010)
, 1h31
Origin German
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Documentary films about technology, Robot films

Computer experts around the world strive towards the development of intelligent robots. Pioneers like Raymond Kurzweil and Hiroshi Ishiguro dream of fashioning intelligent machines that will equal their human creators. In this potential reality, man and machine merge as a single unity. Rejecting evolution's biological shackles tantalisingly dangles the promise of eternal life for those bold enough to seize it. But others, like Joseph Weizenbaum, counterattack against society's limitless faith in the redemptive powers of technology, questioning the prevailing discourses on new technologies and their ethical relationships to human life. The film delves into a world where computer technology, robotics, biology, neuroscience, and developmental psychology merge, and features roboticists in their laboratories in Japan, the USA, Italy and Germany.
A ponte: uma história do ferryboat Bagamoyo
A ponte: uma história do ferryboat Bagamoyo (2010)
, 39minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about technology

Bagamoyo is a ferryboat that has provided a daily connection for the last 37 years between the city of Maputo and Catembe – a largely rural district of the Mozambican capital– carrying several hundred passengers and vehicles each day, as well as goods, from five in the morning until half past eleven at night, seven days a week. The history of the ferry is told through the journeys and the stories of people who know the Bagamoyo and depend on it for their day-to-day lives. To this day, there is no bridge.
Surfing Soweto
Surfing Soweto (2007)
, 1h25
Origin South africa
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Documentary films about technology

Surfing Soweto is the story of a forgotten generation: Bitch Nigga, Lefa and Mzembe are three of the most notorious train surfers in Soweto. They represent a generation of alienated youth, born during the glowing promise after the demise of apartheid and yet without the skills or wherewithal to reap the benefits of their newly-won freedoms. Surfing Soweto shows them riding on the top of trains (train surfing) which in South Africa is known as "ukudlala istaff", ducking as they hurtle past lethal electrical cables, and also in the intimacy of their homes and families.
In the Kingdom of Oil and Millions
In the Kingdom of Oil and Millions (1916)

Directed by Boris Svetlov
Genres Drama
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about technology

Baku in the beginning of the 20th century, everyday life of Baku millionaires and life of workers, who earned their living with hard work in oilfields are shown in the film. Events in the film are unrolled against the background of Jalil’s destiny (performed by V.A.Lenin). Poor Jalil, who grew rich accidentally and became a rich oilman, became friends with Lutfali bey (performed by Huseyn Arablinski) - millionaire and oil magnate. Friendship with this person led Jalil not only to bankruptcy, but also to his total abolition. Unpreparedness of the poor man, who reached up to bourgeois life of the millionaire, is ended tragically.
The Old Bus
The Old Bus (1934)

Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about technology

The film details Australian contributions to flying, including the feats of Lawrence Hargrave, an early flight of Harry Houdini in 1910, T.E. Hart's flight from Sydney to Penrith, Guillaux's 1914 flight in Sydney, the work of Ross and Keith Smith, and Australian flying inventions. It then covers the history of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his plane, The Southern Cross, in particular his circumnavigation of the world. It also touches on the development of the Australian postal air route.
Wings Over Everest
Wings Over Everest (1934)
, 42minutes
Directed by Geoffrey Barkas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about technology

Le film raconte l'expédition ayant eu lieu en 1933 au cours de laquelle le pilote écossais Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (connu sous le nom de Lord Clydesdale) a piloté un avion biplan monomoteur au-dessus du sommet de l'Everest. Deux avions sont partis de l'aérodrome de Purnea en Inde le 3 avril 1933. Les avions, des Westland PV-3 et PV-6 n'étaient pas pressurisés mais embarquaient des bouteilles d'oxygène.