Ein Mann will Fensterrahmen putzen, schiebt dafür das Bügelbrett aufs Fensterbrett und steigt hinaus. Er balanciert draußen, während seine Frau von innen das Bügelbrett festhält und ihm die Ata-...
Der US-Amerikaner Louis Sarno entwickelte als junger Mann eine so große Faszination für die polyphonen Gesänge der Bayaka-Pygmäen, dass er in den zentralafrikanischen Regenwald auswanderte und sic...
Der Titel des Dokudramas bezieht sich nicht auf den Boxerfilm mit Sylvester Stallone, sondern auf ein Kunstwerk des renommierten amerikanischen Künstlers Edward Ruscha: Im Jahr 1976 soll Ruscha einen...
Mitte der 70er Jahre leisten junge Männer ihren Wehrdienst auf einem französischen Marineschiff im Pazifik ab. Dabei werden sie Zeugen der unter Wasser stattfindenden Atomtests – Bilder, die sie n...
Ida lebt mit ihrer fünfköpfigen, internationalen Besatzung auf einem Segelschiff, das ihr gehört. Bei einem Stopp in Marseille treffen sie auf Mitglieder der französischen Fremdenlegion, welche in...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
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...
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
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...
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...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
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...
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...