The JDC's essential role in the relief, reconstruction, and resettlement of European Jewry after 1945. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
A report about the help the American Joint Di...
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
Reconstruction in Heilbronn: city hall, train station, museums, etc. Film footage shot between 1947 and 1957.
Reconstruction in Heilbronn: schools and churches. Film footage from 1946 - 1957, before 22.02.1957.
A playful film about a Saturday: In the morning clean laundry has to be delivered to customers and hotels across the city. In the afternoon the friends can go to the fair and enjoy themselves. The fil...
After having joined Italy again in 1954, the city of Trieste witnessed the flourishing of trade port and an increase of the employment rate. Some of its former citizens left Yugoslavia and moved to th...
The film shows the city of Caen after the bombing and focuses primarily on the first reconstructions. After the clearing of ruins, the public authorities are working on the reconstruction of permanent...
One of the films of the Strength of the Free World television program, produced for U.S. viewers and broadcast by the ABC television network. The three cities of Naoussa, Trieste and West Berlin are l...
Reopening of the Eiffel Tower to the public after the WWII and the German occupation.
First, pictures of pre-war Hanover are shown, followed by the result of the Second World War, the rubble landscape of Hanover. Then the beginning and the individual steps of the reconstruction until t...
An amateur film depicting physics lessons at a rural primary school. Boys and girls engage in physical experiments and count, the film also shows an examination. The author is probably a teacher.
The basement of the Parisian suburbs is riddled with quarries and vaults due to the construction of the metro. An entire district of Nanterre collapsed after a landslide due to the erosion of the subs...
Documentary film with fictional elements. The subject of the film is the economic and social reconstruction achievements of the state of Lower Saxony from 1946 to 1950. These are illustrated primarily...
The episode shows how cinema is used in SNCF's technical research. The tests are filmed and studied by the technicians, who can thus make the necessary modifications during the construction, for an op...
The documentary black-and-white footage by filmmaker Ernst Hirsch dates from 1963 and shows final work on the Zwinger, which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and then rebuilt, as well...
Countless simultaneous interpreters work in the European Council in Strasbourg. Among the 'language jugglers' small intrigues, quarrels and comedies take place. A film in the Strength for the Free Wor...