The Blue Light The first film to be directed by Leni Riefenstahl. The farmers in a small Dolomite village take the wild young girl Junta to be a witch, fearing her evil eye. Moreover, they consider he...
Der Autor und Filmemacher Andrzej Klamt begibt sich in seinem Dokumentarfilm auf die Suche nach ehemaligen Klassenkameraden, mit denen er einst im im polnischen Bytom (früher Beuthen) zur Schule ging...
Deutschland, im Sommer 1961. Der junge Emil arbeitet als Komparse im DEFA-Studio Babelsberg. Eines Tages lernt er bei Dreharbeiten die französische Tänzerin Milou kennen – und bei beiden ist es Li...
Verfilmung des autobiografisch geprägten Romans von Charlotte Roche: Elizabeth Kiehl hat durch einen Autounfall nahezu ihre komplette Familie verloren – und zwar ausgerechnet, als diese sich auf de...
Als "Rote Kapelle" bezeichnete die Gestapo im Dritten Reich verschiedene Widerstandsbewegungen gegen die Nationalsozialisten sowie unabhängig davon einen sowjetischen Spionagering in Paris und Brüss...
Der Regisseur Eric Friedler und Darsteller Lars Lind waren am 22. Oktober 2017 zu Gast im Deutschen Filmmuseum und sprachen mit Michael Hanfeld (FAZ) über ihren Film "Der Clown".
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.