Sons of the Soil

Winged Migration

2001 · ★ 7.6

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of miles and navigating by the stars. These arduous treks are crucial for survival, seeking hospitable climates and food sources. Birds face numerous challenges, including crossing oceans and evading predators, illness, and injury. Although migrations are undertaken as a community, birds disperse into family units once they reach their destinations, and every continent is affected by these migrations, hosting migratory bird species at least part of the year.

Caballos

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Modern Life

2008 · ★ 7.5

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

Trained Hoofs

1935 · ★ 7.5

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

1888 · ★ 6.1

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

An Eastern Market

1928

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Ride Around the World

2006 · ★ 6.3

Journey across Morocco, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Patagonia, Texas and British Columbia, to meet vaqueros, gauchos, baqueanos and cowboys - all part of a single global horse culture, an unbroken trail stretching back 1,500 years.

So Clever Are German Spies

1914

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

A Life on the Farm

2023 · ★ 6.5

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.

Wild Horses, the Rockies and Me

2025 · ★ 6

Gordon Buchanan heads to the Rocky Mountains in search of wild horses. Finding two stallions battling over a herd, he immerses himself in their world, hoping to win their trust.

Cocalero

2007 · ★ 5

A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.

The Percheron

1946 · ★ 5

This documentary is a true tribute to the Percheron, the superb draft horse. We talk about its origins, its characteristic traits, its performance in competitions and its value on the farm or for the heavy draft service in the cities.