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...
Crown prince Georg (third on the left) in the field, 1915
Crown prince Georg (third on the left) in the field, 1915
Materiale frammentario dai diversi fronti su cui si combatté la Prima Guerra Mondiale, in particolare immagini di: soldati italiani (la salita al monte Cimone, la liberazione di Gorizia, operaz...
Film restored in collaboration with Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
The history of the Olympic Village in Rome.
Dem Bürgermeister von Oberstraßkirchen reicht es. Überall in seinem sonst so beschaulichen Dorf ist die Moderne unaufhaltsam auf dem Vormarsch. Seelenlos findet er das, und als selbst die Kollekte ...
Dokumentarfilm über den Amerikaner Edward Snowden und die durch ihn ausgelöste Überwachungs- und Spionageaffäre. Die amerikanische Filmemacherin Laura Poitras schildert darin, wie sie im Januar 20...
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Images of smiling children in overalls in the playground of La Farigola, a municipal primary school in Barcelona. As part of the New Year...
Friday night. A council estate outside the city. Per is badly beaten up on his way home from a night out. He is taken to hospital in a coma. The police have no clues; the air is thick with suspicion. ...
The film opens with a cableway trip. We travel along the Sorrentine Peninsula. The images of some panoramic views of the coast follow the daily images of the tourists walking on the streets or women w...