"L'Chaim" ist ein jüdischer Trinkspruch, ein Lebensmotto und der Name des Protagonisten dieses Dokumentarfilms. Der jüdische Lebenskünstler Chaim Lubelski hat ein ziemlich wildes Leben geführt: Al...
Dokudrama über Leben und Karriere von Florence Foster Jenkins, die als "schlechteste Sängerin aller Zeiten" zu zweifelhaftem Ruhm kann. Unabhängig von ihrem begrenzten Musiktalent zeigt sie der Fil...
Hamlet Free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama: The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy. Thus, the girl lives her whole life as Prince Hamlet. When the King is killed in an assault by ...
Als der Schriftsteller Tomas in einen Unfall verwickelt wird, bei dem ein Kind stirbt, traumatisiert ihn dieses Erlebnis. Obwohl ihn keine direkte Schuld trifft, leidet er über Jahre hinweg an tiefen...
Lebenskünstler Jakob, Ende 30, schlägt sich hauptsächlich mit Auftritten als Elvis-Imitator in Seniorenheimen durch. Ausgerechnet, als er eines Tages einen Job als Fahrer in einem internationalen T...
Schweden, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Maria Larsson, eine einfache Arbeiterfrau, nimmt an einer Lotterie teil und gewinnt überraschend eine Fotokamera. Maria kann mit dem neuartigen Apparat zunächs...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
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 ...
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
Short reportage about seaplanes, stationed on an aircraft carrier. On the ship the seaplanes are repaired and getting ready. The seaplane is being lifted on board and takes off. Subsequently aerial sh...
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. 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...