Cette première série comporte cinq sujets : "Souvenir" montre l'inauguration de deux plaques commémoratives pour les déportés et le retour des camps de concentration. Dans "Au nom de la France", ...
A systematic survey of destroyed bridges over the neckar and the efforts and varying techniques to rebuild them. Some bridges are reopened with ceremonial acts and festivities, some are replace with o...
Finance minister Maurice Petsche calls on the French to purchase government bonds for the country's reconstruction and for facilities. He symbolically grants one bond share to French president Vincent...
The 30 November 1952 elections in Saarland have resulted in a victory for the party in favour of a regime marked by pro-European autonomy and unity with France. Saarland is presented as a mining count...
Opening of Maréchal Pétain's trial on 23 July 1945 in the Paris High Courts of Justice. Retrospective pictures of the return of Pétain to France, his captivity in Montrouge and the opening of the t...
Hands cutting bread with bread machine, slices of bread. Farmer driving tractor on field. Windmill. Loaves of bread lying in shop window. Map of northern Germany: Emsland is marked. (10:00:00 - 10:01:...
A survey of the situation in postwar Germany, produced to raise funds in the US. The film is clearly structured: The first part demonstrates the severe damage of German cities, carefully weaving in ch...
Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
The city of Dresden was bombed by the Allies during the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. Canadian army captures Kleve on February 26th.
An excursion into the periodical permanent exhibitions put on display in the Czech National Museum in Prague told through a story of flirting young couple. The film follows the history chronologically...
Ensemble de sept documents tournés juste après la signature des accords Blum-Byrnes, entre les gouvernements français et américains, autorisant la projection massive des films américains sur le t...
On Whit Weekend, millions of Europeans take to the streets to enjoy a short vacation in the spring air. The film shows the freedom of Western Europeans to organize their own leisure time, in stark con...
Letter from a French student to a German politician in which she presents him with her father's Cross of Merit. Flashback to the 1914-1918 war, Verdun, battlefields, cemetery. Pictures from the Ruhr a...
After various difficulties, an unemployed Italian finds a job at the “Aquila” refinery, which has been reconstructed thanks to the money and machinery sent by the United States through ECA. No dat...
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...
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 ...