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.
A documentary film depicting the voyage of eight hundred European Jews to Palestine in 1940. Racial intolerance fueled by fascism and war is likened to a flood, a ship with Jews then to Noah's ark, a ...
The French Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning visited the construction sites of Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
The film acknowledges the advancements in modern naval engineering and sailing by showing the manufacturing process of the boat engines from the Fiat industrial plants in Turin to the Taormina harbour...
Document d'information générale visant à mettre en valeur le travail des hommes lors de la construction du barrage de Donzère Mondragon. Les ouvrages nécessaires à la domestication des eaux du R...
The film is full of contrasts. Corinth’s great past, shown by its ruins, seems to be replaced by a much less picturesque standard of living caused by poverty. A shepherd with his sheep is juxtapose...
The history of the Niger project in French West Africa and the work being done in land reclamation, irrigation and rice-growing—with equipment purchased through the Marshall Plan. (Note: France appl...
The history of the car manufacturing corporation Fiat from 1899 to the 1950s. Through a short overview the film provides insights on the earliest car models and on the production process inside the fa...
How the people of Walcheren Island (Netherlands) have—with courage, perseverance and faith—reclaimed their island from the sea by repairing the dikes that were destroyed in the war. They are build...
Speakers pledge rehabilitation of displaced persons and refugees undergo training at Zettlitz farm.
0 Titles / 43 MV memorial and people passing by / 50 Refugees at Camp Feldafing / 70 Refugees i...
The staged film represents the crew of the film newsreel, which has the task of finding suitable types of people, on the example of which it is possible to show negative social phenomena. They mainly ...
A general overview on the damages provoked by the WWII to the railway infrastructures and on the efforts to reconstruct them undertaken by the Italian state in collaboration with the allies.
"Asylrecht" was made in 1948/49 as a commissioned work for the British occupation forces. It was shown in Great Britain under the title Report on the Refugee Situation, January 1949. In Germany, where...
Montan film about the European Coal and Steel Community.
Documentary film with fictional elements. The subject of the film is the economic and social reconstruction achievements of the state of Lower Saxony from 1946 to 1950. These are illustrated primarily...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch document the roof work on the Cathedral of St. Trinitatis or Catholic Court Church, carried out by master builder Hermann Ullrich at the beginning of the 19...