Hans-Jürgen Buchner hat in seinem Leben bereits 15 Alben volkstümlicher Musik veröffentlicht und ist dafür sogar in China bekannt. Toni Schmids Porträt des Musikers, das zu dessen 70. Geburtstag ...
Der vermögende Selfmade-Man Chris Decker hat sich nach dem Verkauf seiner Firma fast vollständig von der Außenwelt abgeschottet. Er lebt alleine in einem von ihm selbst entworfenen Hightech-Haus in...
Nach dem Tod seiner geliebten Frau ist aus dem Ostfriesen Uwe Hinrichs ein mürrischer Eigenbrötler geworden. Die Tage verbringt er hinter dem Tresen seines kleinen Tankstellenkiosks und abends sitzt...
Aufzeichnung einer Solo-Vorführung von Ben Becker im Berliner Dom. Er trägt dabei eine Rede vor, die der Autor und Literaturhistoriker Walter Jens dem historischen Judas in den Mund legte: eine Vert...
Der Filmemacher Thomas Riedelsheimer beobachtet und begleitet die gehörlose Perkussionistin Evelyn Glennie bei den Aufnahmen für ihre neue CD. Während man Glennie als "klassische" Musikerin bezeich...
Kinofilm nach der gleichnamigen britischen Serie von 1970/71: Im Jahr 1020 muss der Hexenmeister Catweazle vor den Normannen fliehen. Mit einem Zauberspruch will er seinen Verfolgern entkommen – und...
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...
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...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
Reportage about Austrian war ships and submarines. Images of life on board of the ship 'Tegetthof', navigation (with log and sextant), signals with flags, a torpedo boat flottilla at full speed and t...
A German officer addresses his men in a dugout. They emerge from the dugout and man their trench against an Australian attack. The Australians storm the trench and throw grenades down into the dugouts...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
French language version of a newsreel item on the town of Amiens after the German failure to capture it, showing a pan over the town and the outside of the cathedral, Western Front, 5th-7th April 1918...
Presentation of the activities of Winter Aid in Belgium. Winter Aid was the national-socialist organisation that took over all social assistance works, as they were exercised by government and church,...
Reportage about the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Germany and Prince Ernst Augustus of Cumberland.
Episode of the series "Aviation in Brescia": airplane exercises featuring the pilots Curtiss, Rougier, Calderara, Blériot and Cobianchi.