Dokumentarfilm über den italienischen Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, der 1957 mittellos starb und so den Welterfolg seines einzigen und erst posthum veröff...
Nachdem der Familienvater Michael seinen Job als Bauingenieur verloren hat, zieht er mit seiner Frau Friederike und der achtjährigen Tochter Selma in eine heruntergekommene Wohnung in Hamburg-St. Pau...
Der junge Türke Yusuf lebt mit seiner Mutter Zehra am Rande einer anatolischen Kleinstadt. Mit dem Verkauf selbst hergestellter Milchprodukte halten die beiden sich mehr schlecht als recht über Wass...
Ein so genannter "Omnibusfilm", in dem elf namhafte deutsche Regisseure versuchen, die Stimmung in der krisengeschüttelten Bundesrepublik nach der Entführung und Ermordung Hans Martin Schleyers sowi...
Dokumentarischer Film-Essay, bei dem der französische Filmemacher Robert Bober auf das Wien zur Zeit zwischen dem Ersten Weltkrieg und dem Erstarken des Nationalsozialismus in den 1930er Jahren zurü...
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...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
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...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
Short reportage about seaplanes, stationed on an aircraft carrier. On the ship the seaplanes are repaired and getting ready. The seaplane is being lifted on board and takes off. Subsequently aerial sh...
Documentary about urbanism and aesthetics in architecture. This film is a part of the trilogy 'Urbanisme'.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.