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...
Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Kinderbuchs von Michael Ende. Auf der kleinen Insel Lummerland regiert König Alfons der Viertel-vor-Zwölfte über exakt drei Untertanen: den Lokomotivführer Lukas, die ...
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.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
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...
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.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.