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...
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...
News of the exhibition in Lisbon of a group of “war films” in a tribute to the allied nations.
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...
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...
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...
In einer langen Rückblende erinnert sich der Schriftsteller Andreas an seine große Jugendliebe. Als Austauschstudent reiste er damals mit dem Schiff nach Budapest, wo er sich in Greta, eine junge Se...
Verfilmung des Kinderbuch-Klassikers aus dem Jahr 1967, der erstmals 1972 als technisch aufwändiger Vierteiler fürs Fernsehen adaptiert worden war. Die Geschichte erzählt von dem kleinen Tobbi, der...
Verfilmung der Jugendbücher von Cassandra Clare: Die 15-jährige Clary hält sich selbst für einen ganz normalen Teenager. Ihr Leben ändert sich aber dramatisch, als sie auf einer Party den nur fü...
International besetzter Sciene-Fiction-Thriller von Christian Alvart. Im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte stehen die beiden Astronauten Payton und Bower. Nachdem sie an Bord ihres gigantischen Raumschiffes ...
Gelsomina ist 14 Jahre alt und lebt mit ihren Eltern und ihren drei Schwestern in der Provinz der Toskana. Ihr Vater Wolfgang war einst ein politisch linker Idealist, doch inzwischen hat er sich in ei...
Verfilmung des Kinderbuch-Klassikers aus dem Jahr 1967, der erstmals 1972 als technisch aufwändiger Vierteiler fürs Fernsehen adaptiert worden war. Die Geschichte erzählt von dem kleinen Tobbi, der...
Früher war Aydin ein leidenschaftlicher Schauspieler, aber seit seiner Pensionierung betreibt er in der tiefsten Provinz Anatoliens ein kleines Hotel. Seinen Mitmenschen begegnet der stoische Mann mi...
In den 1930er Jahren zog das Ehepaar Hettie und Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth in zwei spektakulären Expeditionen in den Himalaya, wo sie sich mit einer konkurrierenden Nazi-Expedition eine Art Wettrennen...