Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes

Beauty transformed.

Directed by Jennifer Baichwal

Produced by Foundry Films, ONF | NFB

200690 min7.2 / 10

A visually stunning documentary meditation on an artist who finds transcendent beauty in industrial destruction and environmental transformation.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Manufactured Landscapes sad? Yes. More sad than 82% of films.

  • Is Manufactured Landscapes violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Does Manufactured Landscapes end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.

  • Is Manufactured Landscapes easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Manufactured Landscapes scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

71/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity96

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise47

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love75

How much audiences actually like it

The highest scores in the catalogue →

Ensemble

Like Manufactured Landscapes

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Manufactured Landscapes

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Manufactured Landscapes, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Manufactured Landscapes, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Manufactured Landscapes, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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