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...
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
"King And President - The King of the Belgians and President Poincaré leaving Furnes after an inspection of the French Cavalry in the market square".
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...
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
Newsreel about a group of youngsters flying over Brussels and the World's Fair.
The emergency reconstruction after the 1915 earthquake is still the core of many villages of the Marsica area (in Abruzzo). This documentary is about the villages hit by the earthquake in their ...
An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. Roberts, in Field Marshal's dress blue uniform, comes down the gangplank, followed by hi...
At the end of the Second World War politicians including Alcide De Gasperi, Jean Monnet, Paul Henri Spaak, Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer fought a tough battle for European unity. The end of c...
This film is also known by the title "L’ipocrita smascherato". In respect to other FAI films, it contains quite an innovative scene, in which the loan shark is on a train, looking out the wind...
A short film about the painter Gino Rossi: his life, art, struggle against the academies, conformity and middle class duplicity. His dissent is unyielding, his life complete freedom, but he ends...
The life of the parish priest don Giovanni Minzoni is reconstructed from adolescence to adulthood, from pastoral mission to extreme sacrifice. The film visits the places of his youth in his home...
The historical events connected to Garibaldi and the Expedition of the Thousand.
The life and work of the great actor Ettore Petrolini.