Fifth episode in a series of two-reels in which a 'society girl' has a position of special investigator at the police and works in every, in itself standing, episode on different cases. In this episo...
A romantic drama in which the orphan Jack turns out to be from a good family, which means that he can marry his beloved Kathe. But Kathe’s lover is jealous, and tries to keep Jack at bay.
The film is about the great famine in Russia after World War I and the work done to help the population in 1921, especially the children. Representatives from the League of Nations, The Red Cross, Sa...
News of the exhibition in Lisbon of a group of “war films” in a tribute to the allied nations.
The Public Health Department was created to put reception and counseling facilities into place--with the American Committee's help-- for parents in difficulty. An American Committee nurse, assisted b...
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...
The main street is crowded with people. The battalion band leads the men down through the crowd. The camera, in the front row of the crowd, shows one rank after another in a sustained shot as they par...
Scenes of rural life in Picardie at the beginning of the century: the destruction of shells in open fields, sowing, plowing with a multifurrow plow, harvesting with a sickle, a graduation ceremony, th...
Short comedy about two neighbour children from different social environments, Fritz en Mädi, during the First World War. They are bragging about their fathers who are returning from the war, and play...
Short film in which Barbara's father is killed during a raid of the Vandals. When Barbara and the other women are threatened, she throws a box with explosives to the attackers, which causes their deat...
Episode of the series "Aviation in Brescia": airplane exercises featuring the pilots Curtiss, Rougier, Calderara, Blériot and Cobianchi.
This documentary puts together different moments of Pier Antonio Quarantotto Gambini’s poetic journey, pausing on the only work in verse by this writer from Trieste, “Racconto d'amore” (Lo...
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...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
Napoleon is called up to the army, and says goodbye to Sally, and to the people in the film studio. He leaves. But Sally quickly chases after him, and together they arrive at "Fort Skiddoo". The chaot...
Dokumentarfilm über eine vietnamesische Familie, die in der weltberühmten Halong-Bucht seit mehreren Generationen in einer selbstgebauten schwimmenden Hütte auf dem Meer lebt. Sie sind nicht die ei...
Seit rund zwei Monaten sind die beiden Endvierziger Astrid und Paul ein glückliches Paar. Als Paul Astrid auf ein romantisches Wochenende nach Budapest einlädt, ahnt er jedoch nicht, was der Aufenth...
Früher war Max Fischer Soldat beim KSK, heute verdient er sein Geld als Personenschützer. Bei seinem neuesten Auftrag geht es um die 15-jährige Nina: sie hat beobachtet, wie der berüchtigte Waffen...
Dokumentarfilm über die Stadt Jaffa, mit der man nicht zuletzt die berühmten Jaffa-Orangen verbindet. Die Geschichte der Hafenstadt, deren Rumpf heute ein Stadtteil von Tel Aviv ist, ist Jahrtausend...
Die 25-jährige Inga ist in einem kleinen Dorf in Mecklenburg aufgewachsen. Als sie wenige Monate alt war, ist ihre Mutter Anne bei einem Badeunfall in der Ostsee ertrunken – so haben es ihr zum...
Sommer 1980: Der 12 Jahre alte Oktay war nach seiner Geburt bei seiner Großmutter in der Türkei aufgewachsen. Nun aber soll er zu seinen in Deutschland lebenden Eltern Fatma und Sabri ziehen, die er...
Dokumentarische Liebeserklärung des Filmemachers und Kameramanns Johannes Schaff an das nächtliche Leben in Berlin: Inspiriert von dem Filmklassiker "Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt" aus dem Jah...
Wau Holland war einer der ersten seiner Art. Er gründete 1981 – 25 Jahre vor Gründung von WikiLeaks – den CCC (Chaos Computer Club), die erste Vereinigung deutscher Hacker. Holland wird zum Vorz...