Früher war Jochen Falk einer der besten Agenten der DDR, heute führt er ein geruhsames Leben als Pensionär. Umso erstaunter ist er, als plötzlich die von ihm verachteten "Amateure" vom BND vor sei...
Dokumentarfilm über den sozialen Mikrokosmos Hasenheide, eine rund 50 Hektar große Grünfläche in Berlin, zwischen Neukölln und Kreuzberg. Hier tummeln sich ältere Damen mit ihren Hunden, ju...
Der Reporter Peter Hansen verfolgt als Geschworener einen Gerichtsprozess, zunächst ohne großes Interesse. Die Frau des einflussreichen Dr. Overbeck ist tot, und ihr junger Liebhaber Meinhardt ...
Im Mansfelder Land, einem kargen Landstrich in Sachsen-Anhalt herrschen für junge Leute keine guten Perspektiven: Früher wurde in der Gegend Bergbau betrieben, heute aber sind viele Leute arbeitslos...
Als Mischung aus Polit-Satire und Actionfilm angelegte Verfilmung der gleichnamigen PC-Spiel-Reihe. Im Mittelpunkt steht der "Postal Dude", der mit seiner Frau "Bitch" in einer idyllischen Gemeinde na...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
I. Troops and transport camels of 52nd (Lowland) Division in the streets of El Mejdel (captured 9 November) including the well inside a mosque. Part of a squadron of 1st Hyderabad Lancers riding throu...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
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...
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...
The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....