Dokumentarischer Film-Essay, bei dem der französische Filmemacher Robert Bober auf das Wien zur Zeit zwischen dem Ersten Weltkrieg und dem Erstarken des Nationalsozialismus in den 1930er Jahren zurü...
Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Kinderbuchs von Michael Ende. Auf der kleinen Insel Lummerland regiert König Alfons der Viertel-vor-Zwölfte über exakt drei Untertanen: den Lokomotivführer Lukas, die ...
Ein satirisches Drama in der Welt des Kunstbetriebs: Christian, geschieden und Vater von zwei Kindern, arbeitet erfolgreich als Kurator in einem Museum für moderne Kunst. Sein Beruf bedeutet ihm viel...
Lada heißt auf russisch "Geliebte" – und noch heute ist das altmodische Gefährt das Hauptfortbewegungsmittel für einen Großteil der russischen Bevölkerung. "Ballada...
Verfilmung von Rachel Seifferts Novelle "Die dunkle Kammer". Frühjahr 1945: Der Krieg ist für Deutschland verloren, die Befreiung durch die Alliierten in vollem Gange. Als ihre Eltern, hochrangige N...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
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...
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.
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
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...
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...
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...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
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...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...