Der Dokumentarfilm schildert das Schicksal von vier Menschen aus dem Nordkaukasus, die durch den Tschetschenienkrieg gezwungen wurden, ihre Heimat zu verlassen, und in der Europäischen Union Asyl zu ...
Durch Zufall wird die junge Somalierin Waris in einem Londoner Fastfood-Lokal von einem Starfotografen entdeckt – und steigt innerhalb kurzer Zeit zum neuen Topmodel auf. Niemand ahnt, dass sich...
Die Abenteuer von Kara Ben Nemsi, die als Teil der Karl- May-Welle mit dem Film "Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen" fortgesetzt wurden: Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Gefährten treten gegen den Machredsch von...
16. Jahrhundert, in den peruanischen Anden: Eine Expedition spanischer Conquistadores ist auf der Suche nach El Dorado, dem sagenhaften Goldland der Inkas. Der machtbesessene Unterführer Aguirre reiÃ...
Die Jahrmarkts-Tänzerin Esmeralda liebt den Löwenbändiger Leonidas. Aber auch der unheimliche Zauberer Larifari verehrt sie, doch die kleine Tänzerin weist ihn zurück. Da sinnt er auf Rache und l...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
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.
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...
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...
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 young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
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...