The celebration for the international workers' day in Rome. Activitists and representatives of the Italian Communist Party delegations from all over italy parade across the city center and gather in h...
First experience of a house displacement in Châtillon in order to build a deviation of the national road 306. The film explains in detail the technique used. This house is the first of fifteen houses...
An observation and a celebration of a rise of a steel factory (ČKD Libeň) from the war ruins. The film includes highly aesthetically approached scenes of ruin depiction. It narrates a story of a col...
An educative film depicting the issue of the improvement of health conditions in factories. It displays factory workers as hard working men who are now living in public housing projects close to facto...
A propagandistic piece on a re-populating of the border region of Šumava. It emphasises many job opportunities (e.g. work in factory, forestry, collective unions or Solo Sušice) and idealises the co...
Film about the professional ethics and everyday work of the newsreel cameraman. Committed to timeliness, he respects state secrets and the privacy of citizens. - Cameramen at work: on the roof of the ...
The film shows a landscape in which the railway represents the unifying process that delivers Italy to modernity; the film proposes itself as the poem of the renewal of the infrastructure on rails, th...
Two young couples spend their summer holidays touring and shopping in Rome, crossing the streets of the city centre with a brand new 1100 car.
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...
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...
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...
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...