Der junge Lehrer Petr verlässt die Großstadt, um eine Stelle als Dorflehrer anzutreten. Auf dem Land angekommen, lernt er die Witwe Marie kennen, die mit ihrem 18-jährigen Sohn einen Bauernhof...
Nach einem Banküberfall suchen die fünf Räuber auf der Flucht vor der Polizei Zuflucht in einem abgelegenen Waldhotel. Sie ahnen nicht, dass es sich bei dem Betreiber um den berühmt-berüchtigten ...
Verfilmung des gleichnamige Romans von Ilija Trojanow: Bei einem Autounfall kommen die Eltern des jungen, in Deutschland aufgewachsenen Bulgaren Alexander ums Leben. Er selbst verliert jede Erinnerung...
15 Jahre sind vergangen, seit die Profikillerin Scarlet untertauchen und ihre 12-jährige Tochter Sam zurücklassen musste. Inzwischen arbeitet Sam selbst als Killerin für ein mächtiges Verbrechersy...
Der Dokumentarfilm beleuchtet die Naturgeschichte der Erde am Beispiel von Deutschland, dessen Gebiet vor Millionen von Jahren noch auf dem Breitengrad des Äquators lag. Urwälder, Vulkane und hohe F...
Im streng islamischen Königreich Saudi-Arabien war es Frauen bis 2013 respektive 2018 verboten Fahrrad oder Auto zu fahren. Der Film entstand noch bevor Fahrradfahren für Frauen legalisiert wurde: A...
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...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
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...
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...
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...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
Ginger and her friend Rosa was born on the same day at the same hospital and here lies the reason for their friendship which they cherish throughout their childhood. Politically, The Cold War is high ...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band leading, marching into Bethlehem (poor quality film). II. Allenby's visit to Bethlehem, 25 December 1917. He can be seen among...
(Reel 1) The arsenal entrance in Beresford Square, with the internal train taking the workers to various departments. Women and boys in the Tailors' Shop make gloves, felt "buttons" for 15-inch shells...