The First Film Archive contains 70 documentary films from the period 1899-1913.
Documentary about the Resistance during both world wars.
Documentary on the mechanised production of chocolate.
Het scenario van 'Dawn', gebaseerd op een toneelstuk van Reginald Berkeley, vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van de heroïsche verzetsactiviteiten van de verpleegster Edith Cavell, die tijdens de Eers...
Documentary about the issues that are plaguing the education for disabled students.
Documentary about the issues that are plaguing the education for disabled students.
Documentary on Franco's troops entering Barcelona, which provides glimpses of the impact the war has had on the city (such as ships sunk in the harbour). It includes footage of a few of the events sta...
L'oeuvre scientifique de Joseph Plateau (1801-1883). Le film commence par un portrait de Joseph Plateau, qui fut l'élève de Quetelet. Dans sa jeunesse, il dessine (bataille de Waterloo, Spa). Lectur...
Promotionele documentaire over de witloofteelt in de streek rond Brussel. In deze film voor witloof wordt aanvankelijk het hele kweekproces besproken. Zaaien, wieden, uitdunnen, oogsten en dan het pla...
Om forholdet mellem en far og hans søn, idet den ældre mand ikke er kommet sig over tabet af konen to år forinden. Senere bliver faderen fyret, og hans misantropi forstærkes.
En tidligere patolog, der nu ernærer sig som bedemand, laver forsøg med genoplivning af døde.
Glasgows populæreste diskjockey, kaldet Dicky Bird, bliver ved et tilfælde vidne til et opgør mellem to konkurrerende flødeisfirmaer, ejet af skotsk-italienske familier som nærmest benytter mafia...
Poul is a struggling magician looking for just the right trick to take him to the big time. To get the money to acquire 'The Sawed-in-Half Lady' from Frankfurt he makes a deal with Arne, a shifty insu...
I 1885 får William Cody - bedre kendt som Buffalo Bill - den strålende idé at bruge sit berømte navn i showbusiness. Han skaber et stort vild-vest-cirkus og cementerer sit flotte ry som præriehel...
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
I Sydafrika berører religion alle dele af samfundet. Med tusinder af mennesker, der dør af aids, er religionerne i dag konfronteret med en virkelighed, som rækker ud over deres verdenssyn. Filmen g...
Dokumentarfilm. En skildring af grønlandske sæljægere