The life in Boccadasse, a town in the city of Genoa miraculously remained autonomous and unspoiled.
A trip to a gathering of former inhabitants of Torschau (today Savino Selo in Serbia) who come together in Kirchheim to celebrate the Torschau Parish Fair. One of the former neighbors is an American G...
Recruitment in construction and for work in reopened brickyards after the war is presented through a contrast of scenes with lazy workers and those who are aware of the benefits of the work for their ...
The film presents the agricultural and maritime activities of the Quimper region, its craft industry and its past. After the WWII, urban planners prepared new city plans in order to develop the road n...
The films shows a political rally which took place on March 10th 1949, as the young communist and socialist activists of the Alleanza Giovanile Italiana (Italian Youth Ally) gathered together on the s...
This anonymous film consists of simple silent and partial views of the tribute that was paid to Stalin in Paris, after his death (March 8, 1953). Headquarters of the Central Committee (CC) of the Fren...
War destruction in Pforzheim; reconstruction of the city: including the Nordstadtbrücke bridge, the Bahnhofsplatz square, the Schlosskirche church, the city center with new stores, school and housing...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Masaryk addresses his colleagues abroad and presents a political situation in the country right after the war (1945). The film includes the condemnation of the Nazi...
23220 Chauny - Une rue (Département Aisne, Picardie)
23220 Chauny - A street (Aisne, Picardie)
23294 - Fort de la Pompelle - Reims
23294 - Fort de la Pompelle - Reims (aka Fort Herbillon) Marne
23088 - Artois - Cornqilles - German trenches Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
32989 - Argonne - Clermont in ruins Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
01078 - Rubescourt - Front line (Somme department, Picardie) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
3219 - Chevreux 1917 - at the front line (Cheuvreux?)
23282 - Tahure - Attelage Boche
22032 - Douai en ruines
Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
The city of Dresden was bombed by the Allies during the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. Canadian army captures Kleve on February 26th.