Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
I Sydafrika berører religion alle dele af samfundet. Med tusinder af mennesker, der dør af aids, er religionerne i dag konfronteret med en virkelighed, som rækker ud over deres verdenssyn. Filmen g...
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
En skildring af to engelske kvinders oplevelser i Indien med 60 års mellemrum. Den første kvindeskæbne - skildres i en handling udspillet i 1923, hvor en engelsk kvinde møder og forføres af en in...
L’immagine di uno scriba egizio dà inizio al racconto, dedicato all’evoluzione del libro attraverso i secoli: dai papiri e le pergamene ai codici medievali, dagli incunaboli alle edizioni b...
La città pugliese di Manduria (provincia di Taranto) ha una storia antica, le sue origini risalgono al V secolo a. C. e sono collegate all’antico popolo dei Messapi: diversi oggetti, come cer...
Ricostruzione degli eventi principali della prima guerra mondiale, con particolare attenzione alle vicende italiane, un largo utilizzo di grafici, cartine, illustrazioni, fotografie, e il freque...
Until today one of the most mysterious figures in Italian cinema has been, without a doubt, Lucio D’Ambra. Recent finds of his works permit a more accurate outline of a personality capable of ...
A Laya Films documentary produced during the Spanish Civil War on the cork industry in the Baix Empordà area of Catalonia. It includes scenes depicting the traditional manufacturing process, which be...
President of the Government of Catalonia, Francesc Macià, reads a fragment of his address on the occasion of the opening of the Parliament of Catalonia on 6 December 1932. On 25 October of that same ...
In a small patriarchal community on Scotland's rugged Atlantic coast Bess is considered a good but simple-minded girl, who should not really marry Jan, her foreign oil-rig machinist friend. When Jan i...
I syv programmer går TV 2 bag om syv danske drabssager med hvert sit motiv for at blive klogere på, hvad der får et menneske til at begå den værste forbrydelse af dem alle: At slå et andet menne...