Die Hochschule für Schauspielkunst 'Ernst Busch' in Berlin zählt zu den renommiertesten Schauspielschulen Deutschlands. Sie wurde 1951 in der DDR vom dortigen Kulturministerium ins Leben gerufen und...
Neuverfilmung der populären DDR-Kinderbuchreihe "Alfons Zitterbacke – Geschichten eines Pechvogels". Im Mittelpunkt steht der zehnjährige Alfons, der davon träumt, Astronaut zu werden. Für den M...
In ihrem sehr persönlichen Dokumentarfilm befasst die Regisseurin Carolin Genreith sich mit dem Lebenswandel ihres über 60 Jahre alten Vaters, der seit der Trennung von seiner Frau jedes Jahr mit Fr...
Der Filmemacher Rahul Jain wuchs in der indischen Hauptstadt Delhi auf, einer Megacity mit 20 Millionen Einwohner*innen. In seinem Film zeigt er, wie sich dort die dramatischen Folgen von Indiens rasa...
Mischung aus Spielfilm und dokumentarischer Improvisation: Durch Corona und den Lockdown zur Distanz gezwungen, kommuniziert eine WG ausschließlich über die Video-Plattform Zoom miteinander – wie ...
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...