Movies/Documentaries about welding?

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Anyone know a good welding flick? Because if I hear one more of my wife's friends say, "like in flashdance" when i tell them i'm welding now, i think i may kill someone ("no, not like flashdance, ***- more like in 'building all of the world in which you live with precision and hot-as-the-sun flames'"). I'll accept just any decent documentary or movie that portrays the trades in somewhat accurate fashion. Heck, I'll even accept a decent novel with a welding protagonist. Give me something to tell them, pleeease.
Reply:The only book I can think of that has a welder as one of the lead characters is Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All.   Been quite a while since I've read it but I recall it as being a pretty funny and entertaining read.
Reply:Surf youtube for a video that shows the type welding you do - plus some of the old video/documentary/advertisements are interesting too.Dave J.Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~George Bernard Shaw~ Syncro 350Invertec v250-sThermal Arc 161 and 300MM210DialarcTried being normal once, didn't take....I think it was a Tuesday.
Reply:thanks, y'all
Reply:No as in ChuckE2009 or Welding tips and tricks (Joe D, Jody. Jodie, Jo D?
Reply:I'll make sure to educate them about these fine sources next time, , Mike.
Reply:The construction of the liberty ship was a major step in the development of welded construction.  A lot of mistakes were made along the way but the boats were built faster than the enemy could sink them. They were being produced in several locations.  More than one ship was made each day.  I can remember the last of these ships, then rusting hulks, still carrying marine cargo into the early 1960's.  There is one still floating in San Francisco and being preserved.  Before WW2 ships were riveted.  Welding proved to be much faster and modularized construction allowed sub assemblies to built in nearby yards and then moved to final assembly.  Near the end of the film they show one ship built in a matter of days.  I had a fabrication instructor who worked on some of these liberty ships.  He said that often there was no woodwork that you would normally see... cabins would have no doors.  The toilets were simply a trough with seawater running through it and then overboard.  I worked for a boss who as a young lad started welding in a yard during the war... They were paid by the pound they burned.  The foreman was giving him a bad time for not burning enough rod... then he noticed that guys were throwing handfulls into the water and going back to the tool room for more.  Nothing moved welding forward so quickly than WW2.  Inspection and quality control was part of it.
Reply:What about all those tv shows where they build a car or some foolish stuff from a junkyard ?
Reply:Made myself forget about those.
Reply:Truly amazing. I live about 10 min drive from the old Kaiser shipyards and like to drive through sometimes to scope out all the old junk and check a couple of the old ships. Hard to imagine there were thousands of welders building an armada there.
Reply:I think the history channel did something with welding. Maybe a "modern marvel" type show.Dave ReberWadsworth Ohio
Reply:Thanks everyone. Think I have the beginnings of a decent list. But maybe we could keep adding to it if you remember something? :P