12 Years a Slave had an interesting bit about how you can make ink by boiling maple bank, though it was far less thorough than Northup's descriptions of the agricultural processes for cotton and sugarcane. There should be a sow like How it's Made, but depicting historical methods.
The BBC historical documentary series "The Edwardian Farm" had some of this. It follows a year in the life on a farm set in the Edwardian era and the three documentarians are a historian and two archeologists. It's really well done and super interesting.
