Edeltraut Hertel bringt Kinder auf die Welt. Seit fast 20 Jahren arbeitet die Hebamme in ihrem Geburtsort Meerane, einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt in der Nähe von Chemnitz. In dieser dem Fokus der Wel...
Die Freunde Rico und Oskar sind überglücklich, dass sie inzwischen im gleichen Haus fast Tür an Tür wohnen. Auch Ricos Mutter Tanja geht es bestens, denn in Bühl hat sie einen neuen Partner gefun...
Griechenland, Sommer 1984. Der 20 Jahre alte britische Musiker Kenneth und die gleichaltrige Deutsche Theres haben sich um Urlaub kennen gelernt und ineinander verliebt. Sie finanzieren sich ihre Feri...
Ein schwarzhumoriger bayerischer Krimi: Einstmals der beste Kommissar Niederbayerns verbringt Kreuzeder inzwischen seine Zeit am liebsten im Wirtshaus, wo er nebenbei auch das Herz der Kellnerin Gerda...
Eine junge Frau adressiert das weibliche Publikum in direkter Ansprache, preist sehr diskret Tampax-Produkte an und endet mit einer Entschuldigung für die "Störung".
Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Jugendromans der norwegischen Autorin Vigdis Hjort. Im Mittelpunkt steht die zehnjährige Anne, ein temperamentvolles, abenteuerlustiges Mädchen, mit dem man die sprichwÃ...
Dokumentarfilm über die Wirtschaftsinteressen und die damit einhergehende Korruption hinter den Kulissen des modernen Profisports. Der Journalist und Filmemacher Benjamin Best konzentriert sich dabei...
Videobotschaft zu "Secrets & Lies" ("Lügen und Geheimnisse", Großbritannien/Frankreich 1996) anlässlich der "Carte Blanche"-Reihe von Ulrich Matthes im DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Fr...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
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...
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...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
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...
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...