Keyword: industrial revolution

Middlemarch

7.2

1994

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Middlemarch is a story of provincial life on the brink of momentous change and a deeply moving saga about a group of people striving to give meaning and value to their lives during the Industrial Revolution.

Full Steam Ahead

8.5

2016

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Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn bring back to life the golden age of steam, exploring how Victorian railways helped to shape modern Britain.

Automobile: Ride and Fall

7.7

2025

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Modern Times

8.5

1936

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The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Steamboy

6.9

2004

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In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

The Young Karl Marx

7.1

2017

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The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.

Priest Daens

7.5

1992

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In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. Hes expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foremans rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

Germinal

7.1

1993

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In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining towns workers are exploited by the mines owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.