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1. Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam (Film-Muhawalah 'An Sadd al-Furat)

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing, and aestheticized details, the director demonstrates his admiration for the interwar avant-garde. The film is a celebration of the new, while at the same time showing a traditional way of life and calling attention to working conditions; it is a refrain-like evocation of an arid country that explores the difficult lot of Syria’s rural inhabitants.

It has an average vote of 2.5 on TMDB.

2. Manufactured Landscapes

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

3. Oravská priehrada (Oravská priehrada)

(Oravská priehrada)

4. Dam Nation (Dam Nation)

This video focuses on Dumagat activists, Nanay Nene, Tatay Lope, and Chieftain Rodrigo and their continuous struggle to organize resistance against a Chinese-funded mega dam in Quezon. The Kaliwa Dam Project will displace numerous Dumagat and non-Dumagat families living near the dam site— yet another example of development aggression.

5. La Rose et le Barrage (La Rose et le Barrage)

A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

6. Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries.

7. Grand Coulee Dam

During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It would be the "Biggest Thing on Earth," the salvation of the common man, a dam and irrigation project that would make the desert bloom, a source of cheap power that would boost an entire region of the country. Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination, promising to fulfill President Franklin Roosevelt's vision for a "planned promised land" where hard-working farm families would finally be free from the drought and dislocation caused by the elements.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

8. Vajont 9 ottobre '63 (Vajont 9 ottobre '63)

(Vajont 9 ottobre '63)

It has an average vote of 9.2 on TMDB.

9. Sobradinho (Sobradinho)

In the 70s, a dam and a hydroelectric plant were built in Sobradinho. The government at the time, which was commanded by the military regime, thought that that small town, in the northeast hinterland, would be ideal for the construction, because there would be no resistance from the locals. So, 73.000 people were displaced - it is one of the biggest forced migrations in the history of Brazil. Four cities and dozens of villages submerged. Mrs. Pequenita was the only inhabitant to ever return; there, she lives in a ghost town. She receives the visit of three social agents, who own old videos and photos of the region.

10. Gorges du Verdon: Les défis du plus grand canyon d'Europe (Gorges du Verdon: Les défis du plus grand canyon d'Europe)

(Gorges du Verdon: Les défis du plus grand canyon d'Europe)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

11. Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

12. Flood in the Desert

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer who ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing the city water via aqueduct. The catastrophe killed more than 400 people and destroyed millions of dollars of property.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

13. Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the Three Gorges Dam. It is slated to be 610 feet high, 1.3 miles across, creating a reservoir 400 miles and the largest power plant in the world.

14. Operatie Oosterschelde (Operatie Oosterschelde)

Documentary about the Delta Works in Zealand.

15. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.

It has an average vote of 6.217 on TMDB.

16. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

It has an average vote of 7.884 on TMDB.

17. Cujo

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

It has an average vote of 6.103 on TMDB.

18. The Dam Busters

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

19. Gamera vs. Barugon (大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン)

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

It has an average vote of 6.388 on TMDB.

20. Dam Sharks!

Voracious sharks use human bodies to build dams.

It has an average vote of 4.771 on TMDB.