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...
Das Kino des Deutschen Filmmuseums ehrte Artur Brauner, der im Juli 2019 im Alter von 100 Jahren starb, posthum im Oktober 2019 mit einer Carte Blanche. Die Filmreihe, die dieser noch zu Lebzeiten zus...
Melodrama in which the rich and arrogant George promises to give money to the penniless Frank and Jane, on the condition that he could spend the night with Jane. She agrees with this, hoping to save h...
Based on an English fairy tale in which poverty forces Jack to sell their cow, but in exchange gets beans instead of money. Eventually he uses the magic beans to wind up in the castle of the giant.
A documentary film on recent Norwegian history (1905-1955). Spanning from the break with Sweden and arrival of the new king Haakon VII, to the promise of things to come through such new fields as spac...
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orléans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 191...
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...
A woman, concerned about the continual absences of her husband, commissions a detective to follow him and report back to her. At first glance this appears to be a classic fictional device, all the mor...
Film documenting a tortuous series of cavalry exercises. It includes a harrowing sequence of horses descending steep hills and cliffs and jumping into the water. Film restored in collaboration w...
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...
Newsreel about a group of youngsters flying over Brussels and the World's Fair.
Documentary about urbanism and aesthetics in architecture. This film is a part of the trilogy 'Urbanisme'.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...