Les luttes des dockers durant l'hiver et le début du printemps 1950, filmées à Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, La Pallice (La Rochelle), Marseille et Bordeaux. Après une évocation de la précarité, de la ...
Production rooms of various local companies: Victor Rehm (costume jewelry parts), Hermann Becker (watch cases), Paul Raff (watch case assembly), Porta - Uhrenrohwerke (reassembly), Laco (semi-automati...
Bateau "Pace" Genova, à quai. Les passagers sur le pont. Une automobile descend du bateau. Ruines et volcan. Femmes et jeunes filles venant chercher de l'eau à la fontaine. Le pape Pie XII dans la f...
Les infrastructures et le réseau ferroviaire de la région nord ont été complètement dévastés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les cheminots ont tout fait avec courage et détermination pour ...
A reflection of horrors executed by the Nazi regime in Czechoslovakia and abroad. The film focuses mostly on the documentation of concentration camps, mass graves and an accusation of representatives ...
A depiction and a celebration of a traditional and folkloric way of life in a countryside-like region of Slovácko (Moravia). It represents a traditional architecture, clothing, habits and folk art. I...
Documentaire historique sur Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, architecte et urbaniste sous les règnes de Louis XV et Louis XVI. Ledoux, père des visionnaires, et des utopistes, est découvert par la cour de Lo...
Sight of the most suggestive castles of Italy. Their historical importance and their artistic beauties.
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 ...