In seinem Dokumentarfilm beschäftigt sich der Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim mit der Geschichte der "Hölle". Selbst in einer streng katholischen Familie aufgewachsen begibt er sich nun, al...
Der 72-jährige Finne Grump macht seinem Namen alle Ehre: Er ist praktisch immer schlecht gelaunt und sucht stets nach Dingen, über die er sich ärgern kann. Nachdem er seinen geliebten roten 72'er F...
Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt die Geschichte der Droge LSD, von ihren Anfängen in den 1940er Jahren bis heute. Entdeckt wurde die Substanz durch Zufall von dem Schweizer Wissenschaftler Albert Hofmann:...
Norwegen, Anfang der 1980er Jahre. Der Profi-Taucher Petter und sein Bruder Knut testen im Auftrag der Regierung ein neues Sauerstoff-Gas-Gemisch, das Öl-Pipelines in 500 Meter Tiefe ermöglichen sol...
Das kleine Rentier Niko hat in seiner Herde keinen leichten Stand: Die anderen Tiere belächeln und verspotten den gewitzten kleinen Kerl, da er überzeugt ist, zur Familie jener magischen Rentiere zu...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The Danish film journal FILMEN was published in the period 1912-1919 (24 issues per year). First published under the name "A/S Kinografen", then from 1913 under the name "Association of Cinema Theatre...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
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 ...
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.