Dokumentarfilm über die Schriftstellerin Elfriede Jelinek. Die Nobelpreisträgerin scheidet die Geister, sie wurde als Wunderkind bezeichnet und als Vaterlandsverräterin beschimpft, zeigte sich als ...
Mortimer Folchart und seine Tochter Meggie verfügen über eine besondere Gabe: Wenn sie laut aus ihren Büchern vorlesen, können sie dadurch die Figuren der Romane zu realem Leben erwecken. Allerdin...
Der junge Amerikaner Casey reist als Rucksacktourist durch Deutschland. Als seine Freundin Juliette erkrankt und Geld für eine überlebenswichtige OP benötigt, springt er als Fahrer für eine Bande ...
Kinderfilm nach der populären, gleichnamigen Fernsehserie. Fritz Fuchs, der aus der Serie bekannte Erfinder, hat gerade sein neuestes Werk vollendet: einen solarbetriebenen Paraglider. Dann aber werd...
Im Finnland des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts lebt ein zehnjähriger, stummer Junge mit seiner allein erziehenden Mutter auf einem kleinen Hof in der Wildnis, fernab der Zivilisation. Der Vater des Jungen,...
Der alte Farmer Abga lebt mit seiner Enkelin Asida in Georgien am Fuße des Kaukasus-Gebirges. Eines Tages beschließt er, auf einer kleinen Insel auf dem Enguri-Fluss Mais anzupflanzen. Die Insel ent...
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.
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 ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
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.
Short film in which Barbara's father is killed during a raid of the Vandals. When Barbara and the other women are threatened, she throws a box with explosives to the attackers, which causes their deat...
Version with French language subtitles of part of IWM 17 the NEW CRUSADERS Men of 1/8th Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, 54th (East Anglia) Division, on Samson Ridge, resting and eating. Some of the...
"USA Excursion Steamer Disaster" (208-2) "Rescuers working on the «Eastland» which capsized in the Chicago River", with the loss of over one thousand lives."Training mules for the Army" (208-2) "Mr ...
A 3-D documentary on WWI which combines historical footage, tinted stereoscopic images, film fragments, diary entries and letters from the front into a collage. Several narrators recite the historical...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
Napoleon is called up to the army, and says goodbye to Sally, and to the people in the film studio. He leaves. But Sally quickly chases after him, and together they arrive at "Fort Skiddoo". The chaot...