6.7 / 10
(6 votes)
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, and language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.
China,
United States of America
Documentary
82 minutes
2014
J.P. Sniadecki
Cinder Films
2014
9.5
2022
0.0
2006
7.0
2015
8.5
2019
0.0
2020
0.0
2011
4.0
2005
4.8
2022
0.0
2020
8.0
2009
0.0
2000
7.2
2005
10.0
2018
10.0
2019
0.0
2012
10.0
2019
6.0
2011
10.0
2015
9.0
2014
0.0