The Right of the Strong A car bomb explodes outside a Berlin cinema as inside an Israeli film celebrates its premiere. The trail of evidence leads to the video blog of 18-year-old Jana. What might hav...
Ein Luxushotel im arabischen Krisengebiet. Die deutsche Entwicklungshelferin Dorothea ist dabei, mit Charity-Empfängen für ihr Hilfsprojekt Spenden einzuwerben – erfolgreich auch aufgrund des Alko...
Essayfilm über ein "Engelbecken" genanntes Areal zwischen Berlin-Mitte und Berlin-Kreuzberg, das zur Metapher für die einst durch ganz Berlin verlaufende Mauer und den "Todesstreifen" auf deren Osts...
Dokumentarfilm über die Schweizerin Lotti Latrous, die an der afrikanischen Elfenbeinküste seit vielen Jahren ein Sterbehospiz für Aidskranke betreibt. Neben der alltäglichen Arbeit in dem Hospiz ...
Der Schauspieler Sebastian Koch war am 22. Oktober 2016 zu Gast im Deutschen Filmmuseum und sprach mit Kirsten Liese (Deutschlandfunk/WDR) über seine Karriere und den Film "Der Mörder meiner Mutter"...
Die 17-jährige Luna fährt mit ihren Eltern und ihrer kleinen Schwester in den Urlaub. Doch die Idylle in einer abgeschiedenen Berghütte nimmt ein jähes Ende, als ein Killerkommando auftaucht und f...
Mit 30 Jahren, so heißt es häufig, muss man im Berufsleben verankert sein – ansonsten schafft man es auch nicht mehr. Marko Doringer steckt in genau dieser unglücklichen Situation: Er is...
Short film in which a child is playing with soldier puppets and falls asleep. In the following dream the puppets come to life, through animation.
Suzanne and the prince of Sylvania fall in love with each other, but this is forbidden. Suzanne is thrown out of the house, gives birth to an illegitimate child, goes mad and dies before she can see h...
The farmer's daughter and her young man spend idyllic moments in the countryside, riding in a buggy and then rowing on the lake. The girl plucks a daisy: "He loves me, he loves me not..." but of cours...
First lead role for the gentle giant Maciste (original name Bartolomeo Pagano), who stole the scene to the leaders and the princesses in "Cabiria". The period and the location are different, but not t...
From the celebration of the Norwegian national day, the 17th of May, in the capital Kristiania, later named Oslo. The day is celebrated traditionally with choral singing, brass bands and children's ...
A British film recording the visit of King George V, accompanied by his son Prince Albert (later George VI), on a tour inspection of several British battleships in an unnamed location (possibly ...
A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Near the bridges of Valle di Maddaloni (near Caserta), a teacher reads an excerpt from G.C. Abba’s “Noterelle di uno dei Mille” to a group of children. The excerpt is about the battle of t...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
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...
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.