An actress "Britannia" draws aside a curtain over a screen, flanked by silhouettes of two British soldiers. On the screen appears a genuine scene of refugees fleeing out of Belgium in 1914, followed b...
Reel 1. 1. Intertitle: The harvest. The flax stalks are not cut, but picked. Image: Russians POWs pick flax stalks under the supervision of a German soldier; children gather bundles of flax, which are...
<p>Unidentified film, probably three different reportage films, with Danish intertitles:<br>The attack at Monticello.<br>A pigeon transports a message.<br>Alpine soldiers issue...
Little Momi’s father has left to be a soldier and his letters are eagerly anticipated by his family at home. In one of them he recounts the adventure of little highlander Berto, who saved his mother...
The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...
The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
On the ground, men try to control a dirigible's cables to help it land near a hangar. Once again in flight, this dirigible meets another, Astra dirigible.
Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
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...
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...
Eesti Rahvuskongressist osavõtjad Tallinnas
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...
Deutschland, 1957. Der Staatsanwalt Fritz Bauer erhält entscheidende Hinweise über den Aufenthaltsort des SS-Obersturmbannführers Adolf Eichmann. Dieser gehörte zu den führenden Köpfen im Hitler...
Dokumentarfilm über die deutsche Filmlandschaft zwischen 1933 und 1945: Während der Nazizeit wurden in Deutschland rund 1000 Spielfilme hergestellt. Wenngleich es sich nur bei sehr wenigen davon um ...
Dokumentarfilm über die Lebensgeschichte von José Antonio Gutierrez, der als einer der ersten 300.000 US-Soldaten in den Irak-Krieg geschickt wurde. Gutierrez kam dabei zu trauriger Berühmtheit, de...
Biographisches Filmwerk mit
Tragödie (Kammerspiel) nach dem Roman von
Tonbild zum Duett "Das süße Mädel" (auch "So g'wachsen wie a Bamerl") aus dem Ersten Akt von Heinrich Reinhardts erster Operette "Das süße Mädel". Bei ihrer Uraufführung 1901 war die Operette e...
The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film synopsis: The sailor Freddy is on the run: In Genoa, he was involved in a drunken stabbing that left one person dead. Now Freddy is wanted by t...