The oft-debated "Questione Meridionale" (Southern Issue) is here tackled from the perspective of the Communist Party. he As the film extensively shows how poverty and backwardness in the southern regi...
Sila: l'assegnazione dei lotti di terra con la riforma agraria, la costruzione di nuove strutture, il cambiamento di vita dei contadini calabresi.
1 - un giorno arriva un ministro, il paese viene...
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...
Famed radio station RIAS (Radio In the American Sector), which brought news and entertainment to the people of Berlin and Communist East Germany, is featured in this report. In the western sectors of ...
Dykes and acqueduct's construction in the Flumendosa valley and the Mulargie, in Sardinia.
After the liberation of Alsace, inventory of Alsatian villages and images of the reconstruction.
The presenter Jacqueline Joubert explains what television is and how it works.
Delegation of young Soviets visiting the Cité Radieuse and the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille.
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...
A biographical film depicting a life of K. H. Frank. Frank's childhood is presented through a set of personal documents and photos. His alliance with Hitler is emphasised. Documents manifesting his cr...
A day in a suburb of a big city. From dawn to dusk the suburb, a city in the city, lives its particular life full of charm and poetry. It is a panorama of human characters who live on the edge of a bi...
An insightful survey of European agriculture five years after the war. Though much has been achieved in restoring production, ever-more- efficient methods must be found to feed Europe’s growing popu...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch documents the completion of the external reconstruction work on the Zwinger, which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945. The film goes into det...
A documentary film depicting the voyage of eight hundred European Jews to Palestine in 1940. Racial intolerance fueled by fascism and war is likened to a flood, a ship with Jews then to Noah's ark, a ...
The French Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning visited the construction sites of Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
The film acknowledges the advancements in modern naval engineering and sailing by showing the manufacturing process of the boat engines from the Fiat industrial plants in Turin to the Taormina harbour...
Report on the "Fines" operation which consists in fining everyone who is caught red-handed 900 francs, whether they are pedestrians or motorists. A competition to find the best policeman and the best ...
1. 1951: Inauguration of the newly constructed Nordstadtbrücke in the presence of Minister President Reinhold Maier / 2. 1970: Inauguration of the Kanzlersteg over the river Enz / 3. 1971: Renovation...
"I monumenti italiani e la guerra" is a documentary showing the vast war damages on Italian art heritage, as well as the long but mostly successful restoration process that followed. It was realised b...
A fictitious archaeologist speaks with passion about the history of housing, from the caves to Haussmann and to the WWII, which created a terrible housing shortage. After this fatalistic conclusion co...
Austrian Headquarters for Jewish Agency, man at table, in headquaters, people boarding buses, through Austria, Sign "Camp CH.N.Bialik, street Jewish Agency Palestine Immigration office, sending goods ...
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.
Le Havre is the most destroyed harbourg on the continent. While the war is over, men clear the ruins to make room for the new docks. Commentary on aerial views of the port and the excavation and recon...
Through Charley's journey, the cartoon seeks to underline the disadvantages of traditional cities and the need for new, functional and hygienic cities.
This cartoon seeks to persuade us of the di...