Der alte Bauer Pettersson ist genervt, weil sein Kater Findus ununterbrochen auf seiner neuen Matratze herumspringt. Um endlich wieder Ruhe zu haben, baut er dem Kater ein eigenes kleines Haus, nur zu...
In seinem Dokumentarfilm beschäftigt sich der Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim mit der Geschichte der "Hölle". Selbst in einer streng katholischen Familie aufgewachsen begibt er sich nun, al...
Der 72-jährige Finne Grump macht seinem Namen alle Ehre: Er ist praktisch immer schlecht gelaunt und sucht stets nach Dingen, über die er sich ärgern kann. Nachdem er seinen geliebten roten 72'er F...
Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt die Geschichte der Droge LSD, von ihren Anfängen in den 1940er Jahren bis heute. Entdeckt wurde die Substanz durch Zufall von dem Schweizer Wissenschaftler Albert Hofmann:...
Norwegen, Anfang der 1980er Jahre. Der Profi-Taucher Petter und sein Bruder Knut testen im Auftrag der Regierung ein neues Sauerstoff-Gas-Gemisch, das Öl-Pipelines in 500 Meter Tiefe ermöglichen sol...
Das kleine Rentier Niko hat in seiner Herde keinen leichten Stand: Die anderen Tiere belächeln und verspotten den gewitzten kleinen Kerl, da er überzeugt ist, zur Familie jener magischen Rentiere zu...
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...
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...
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...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
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...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...