Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
An amateur film compilation around the Borders. Includes footage of a visit to Duns by The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rt. Rev Dr. James A. Simpson, a 250th annive...
Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
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...