A film gives a tour through a history and a cultural heritage of the town of Telč. It praises its historical architecture, namely the middle-age and Renaissance epochs. It frequently employs travelli...
Reconstruction activities in Heilbronn with focus on streets and squares (Part 1): Detailed footage from the years 1946-1953; in the early footage, mainly ruins and fallow land, then increasingly rede...
Destruction of the Eppendorf University Hospital during World War II and reconstruction in the post-war years.
La cité d’expériences de Noisy-le-Sec. A l’été 1945, se dresse à une dizaine de kilomètres de Paris un chantier expérimental de maisons. Inaugurant la politique de chantiers expérimentaux ...
Several people died from cold during the harsh winter of 1954. The appeal by Abbé Pierre to help the homeless causes a collective awakening to poverty in France and an unprecedented wave of generosit...
Famed radio station RIAS (Radio In the American Sector), which brought news and entertainment to the people of Berlin and Communist East Germany, is featured in this report. In the western sectors of ...
Displaced persons in post-war Germany: The situation of refugees and displaced persons from the East is portrayed using the example of four fictional fates.
The city of Warsaw is in ruins. A ceremony commemorates it, in the presence of Boleslaw Bierut and of the French Ambassador.
A presentation of how life of pacients in the spa town Poděbrady looks like told through a perspective of a patient. The film deals with the cultural and sports life of the city and its history.
Roger Gillet (1916-1974), modeleur mécanicien de formation puis à la tête d'une société de menuiserie-ébénisterie, était membre du PCF dans la section du 20e arrondissement de Paris. // Au mil...
The ruins left by the war will be replaced by cities and buildings designed by architects. We already see some of their achievements, compared to the monuments of the past.
Living conditions are difficult for many elderly people in this winter. This episode denounces that French people who worked all their lives, fought during the WWI and gave their sons during this last...
The foreman at the construction site for a new dam in the Austrian alps explains to the audience, why electricity provided by water power will be key for the economic recovery and technological modern...
Dernière née des locomotives électriques, la 2D2 5500 allie confort, vitesse et sécurité. Le film suit la production, l'acheminement et la transformation de l'énergie électrique nécessaire à ...
A documentary about youth brigades that are being offered for the reconstruction of Lidice. The film recalls the tragedy of Lidice and describes the work of international youth in the construction of ...
Reconstruction of the German economy with the help of American loans through the Marshall Plan: 18 flags of the nations involved in the European reconstruction program. Machine construction, building ...
The basement of the Parisian suburbs is riddled with quarries and vaults due to the construction of the metro. An entire district of Nanterre collapsed after a landslide due to the erosion of the subs...
L'épisode montre comment le cinéma est utilisé dans la recherche technique de la SNCF. Les essais sont filmés et étudiés par les techniciens, qui peuvent ainsi apporter les modifications nécess...
The documentary black-and-white footage by filmmaker Ernst Hirsch dates from 1963 and shows final work on the Zwinger, which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and then rebuilt, as well...
Countless simultaneous interpreters work in the European Council in Strasbourg. Among the 'language jugglers' small intrigues, quarrels and comedies take place. A film in the Strength for the Free Wor...
The little story of Koula the mule and his friend, a Greek farm boy, was well received outside Greece in Western Europe. The film commentary was translated into nine languages. With the help of mules ...
The film tells of incredible adventures in the commentary. But its images explore the gleaming machinery of a factory, full of the latest new technology, with which milk from all over France is turned...
The amateur film describes the course of the elections to the National Assembly among the employees of the Stalin plant in Litvínov. The film documents the announcement of elections, meetings of offi...