On Whit Weekend, millions of Europeans take to the streets to enjoy a short vacation in the spring air. The film shows the freedom of Western Europeans to organize their own leisure time, in stark con...
Letter from a French student to a German politician in which she presents him with her father's Cross of Merit. Flashback to the 1914-1918 war, Verdun, battlefields, cemetery. Pictures from the Ruhr a...
After various difficulties, an unemployed Italian finds a job at the “Aquila” refinery, which has been reconstructed thanks to the money and machinery sent by the United States through ECA. No dat...
Creazione di squadre di volontari per dissotterare le mine disseminate sul territorio italiano.
1 - cartello in testa a ricordo di quanti morirono nel tentativo di disinnescare le mine;
2 - ...
1 - Campagna ed abitato di San Vittore
2 - crepe e danni sulla torre campanaria e sulla pittura di un affresco
3 - un favo brulicante di api su una superficie dipinta raffigurante un volto s...
Il documentario illustra il lavoro di ricostruzione e di restauro di alcuni monumenti dell'antichità romana, di chiese, di mosaici e di affreschi del Lazio.
1 - panoramica sui Fori romani
Il cortometraggio parla della ripresa del porto di Genova a dieci anni dal conflitto mondiale e del lavoro marittimo che svolge.
1 - le immagini del porto di Genova entrando dal mare, molte navi ...
L'Italia bombardata. Chiese e monumenti distrutti dalla guerra - dal 1942 al 1944
1 - un edificio duramente danneggiato dalle bombe
2 - l'ingresso di una chiesa gotica danneggiata dal bomba...
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.
A film about the first post-war October in Prague is also an experimental work in colour documentary. in addition to the colors of the autumn trees, it also plays with the colors of the neon lights an...
Using non-fictional shots and animated maps, the film presents the planned project of the Elbe-Oder-Danube Canal, which should open the way for Czechoslovakia to the world's seas and connect it with t...
Film představuje technickou podstatu a historický vývoj staroměstského orloje na budově Staroměstské radnice v Praze. Jelikož se radnice stala jednou z mála pražských budov poničených v ...
Prague celebrates the fifth anniversary of its liberation by the Red Army in the presence of Klement Gottwald, the President of Czechoslovakia, and the Russian Marshal Boulganine.
The French Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning visited the construction sites of Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
From 1943, Marseille is occupied by the Germans who destroy some neighborhoods and build fortifications. After the landings in June and August 1944, the Germans undermine the port and begin to destroy...
War damage in Cologne. The camera pans across ruins but also piles of rubble and largely cleared areas. The whole area appears deserted, inhabited only by a few women and children.
A film depicts a national aid campaign supporting a development of Slovakia as a rural and more traditionally oriented part of Czechoslovakia. It puts into contrast an industrial Czech land and a folk...
A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.
Around the Blaubach and the Waidmarkt, the war damage is still clearly visible in Cologne's Südstadt. Houses lie in ruins while people try to go about their regular lives in the post-war period. View...
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.
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Reconstruction activities in Heilbronn with focus on streets and squares (Part 1): Detailed footage from the years 1946-1953; in the early footage, mainly ruins and fallow land, then increasingly rede...
Based on ancient medicine's belief that a good life depends on good health, the film attempts to take stock of the state of health in post-war Europe and the successes that have been achieved in disea...
Displaced children in post-war Europe are eventually brought to Palestine. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
Not only in contrast to an untroubled childhood in America but even in co...