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Headed to the movies this weekend for Christopher Nolan’s newest film, The Odyssey? Good news – you’ll be watching American manufacturing at work.

It's May the Fourth, and we're thinking about the workers -- not the robots -- who built the Death Star.

The setting makes "Barbarian," a movie about the worst Airbnb stay in the history of man.

A short sampler of films and TV shows that draw on factories for scenery, setting and inspiration. It’s no secret: The Alliance for American Manufacturing likes a good manufacturing movie from...

They've shot plenty of movies there already, though.

Wonka’s competitors' attempts to steal his secrets has him so freaked out that, fearing leaks, he lays his workforce off and imported the Oompa Loompas to live and work in his factory to safeguard...

This of course was not the first time Mexico had hosted a runaway Hollywood film production, but it’s one of the most cited examples, likely because it was for nakedly economic reasons.

A few years ago, venture capital subsidized the company’s moviegoers. Today, new unsustainable business models can be found in select manufacturing industries. The Alliance for American...

Just focus on the crazy jungle animals, not on the shoe factory in the film's background.

A film about a Japanese takeover of an American auto factory could have been interesting. Instead, it was thin and moralizing in the wrong way.