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You can watch Robinson in Space (1997) for free on Kanopy.

Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.

A melancholic sense of isolation pervades this study of a nation’s industrial and social landscape. Through an unseen journey across ports and power stations, the film captures a haunting, quiet reflection on the state of the country.