In an audacious investigation, Freightened will reveal the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.

The sailor John gets married and becomes a painting artist.

Based on the development of naval shipbuilding, this documentary series explores both the advance and the importance of shipping in Greece from the prehistoric period until modern times.

After more than 160 years of existence and numerous magnificent ships that sailed from its facility, the Pula shipyard "Uljanik" became a graveyard of abandoned workshops, steel wrecks and unmovable cranes. In this post-apocalypse landscape, which today is inhabited by loud seagulls, half-starved cats and crayfish, we are caught up with the emotional testimonies of former workers..

The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad weather forced them to dock at Albany and they made another stop at the French island of Kerguelen for fuel and water. By the time Captain Laurie McEwan sailed the final two days to Heard Island, a six-week voyage had taken 12 weeks. The ship was declared a wreck and the extended time at sea had left them with just two days worth of fuel.

A creative trans self-documentary video exploring themes of early transition and gender rebirth using themes of mythology and the sea.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

In France, an elite team of engineers race to build one of the largest and most technologically advanced cruise ships in the world. Battling strict deadlines, workers must cut and bend 42,000 tonnes of steel and install a pair of 300-tonne tanks.

The holiday romance of Daniel and Marjana is disturbed by a premonition of an imminent fatal event. In this vision, the beloved accompanies her lover on an arduous and wearisome voyage by sea and when the situation seems most desperate, a mysterious ship suddenly appears on the horizon…

A Musical journey - Before the beginning of the universe - to the end of space/time--- then beyond.

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

The Anton Buiucli was launched in July 1969 in Romania. The people who came to work on this steamer became a unique crew in their own way. Many of them worked as a team for a very long time - both ten and fifteen years. This was a rare case in the Sakhalin Shipping Company-with an endless staff turnover. "Anton Buyukly" has become for many sailors not just a place of work, but a real home. And the crew members of this ship remained loyal friends for life.

A steamboat ride on Lake Zurich. Filmed close up to the machines, the operators and the passengers, the short film provides a multifaceted impression of the work in the engine room and the lively activities on deck.

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of "Caleuche," the Ship (Nave) of Fools (de los locos), a mythical figure of his ancestral strength which "made" him start the fire. An appointed lawyer (a white woman) comes to the chief's defence, alleging the chief had acted in self-defense as the white man was building commercial structures on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors, and continued doing so even after heated protests.

The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche war plans to Tokyo from his base in Malaysia. But while flying over Chinese waters his plane is shot down and he is taken aboard a ship bound for Shanghai to deliver its merchandise - a ship filled with Female Slaves kidnapped from Japan. Will he abandon the women to pursue his main objective? Or will he fight foes, spies and pirates to save these women against all odds?