A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
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...
Ginger and her friend Rosa was born on the same day at the same hospital and here lies the reason for their friendship which they cherish throughout their childhood. Politically, The Cold War is high ...
I. The film contrasts quotes from a German newspaper given as 'Westphalia Daily News' reporting the damage or destruction of prominent landmarks in the centre of London with film of those places taken...
Family Christmas from the mid 1960s.
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...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
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...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The ceremony takes place in a field, with men of Plumer's staff watching as he pins medals for bravery onto women officers of the Queen Alexandra's First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the Voluntary Aid Det...
Michael is an emerging raptalent in a film that is about finding the courage to follow your dreams.
Da en hær af monstrøse skabninger kaldet Kaiju steg op fra Stillehavet, begyndte en krig, der kostede millioner af menneskeliv og tærede på menneskehedens ressourcer i flere år. For at bekæmpe d...
Tina, der stadig bor hjemme hos sin krakilske og overbeskyttende mor, er ikke svær at overtale, da hendes nye kæreste, Chris, inviterer hende på en 'erotisk odysse' i bil med campingvogn. Hun har e...
Han kunne have nydt freden og magten som leder af the Necromongers, men tørsten efter at genfinde sin egen planet lokker alligevel den undslupne straffefange Riddick til at stole på sin gamle rival ...
I denne moderne udgave af Jonathan Swifts klassiske fortælling spiller Jack Black hovedrollen som Lemuel Gulliver, en kæmpende forfatter der leverer post rundt på avisen The Times. For at imponere ...
I 2009 styrter en NASA sonde ned i grænselandet mellem Mexico og USA med en samling prøver fra en fremmed planet. 6 år efter er halvdelen af den mexicanske stat inficeret af udenjordiske livsformer...
Billy Beane er direktør for baseballholdet The Oakland As. Det er ham, der sætter holdet og skaffer spillere og en dag går der noget meget vigtigt op for ham; selve grundlaget for baseballspillet e...
Den dobbelte Oscar-vinder Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County, U.S.A.", "American Dream") ser i sin nye film med friske øjne på det amerikanske samfunds omgang med våben ti år efter Michael Moore "Bowl...