Hans-Jürgen Buchner hat in seinem Leben bereits 15 Alben volkstümlicher Musik veröffentlicht und ist dafür sogar in China bekannt. Toni Schmids Porträt des Musikers, das zu dessen 70. Geburtstag ...
Der vermögende Selfmade-Man Chris Decker hat sich nach dem Verkauf seiner Firma fast vollständig von der Außenwelt abgeschottet. Er lebt alleine in einem von ihm selbst entworfenen Hightech-Haus in...
Nach dem Tod seiner geliebten Frau ist aus dem Ostfriesen Uwe Hinrichs ein mürrischer Eigenbrötler geworden. Die Tage verbringt er hinter dem Tresen seines kleinen Tankstellenkiosks und abends sitzt...
Aufzeichnung einer Solo-Vorführung von Ben Becker im Berliner Dom. Er trägt dabei eine Rede vor, die der Autor und Literaturhistoriker Walter Jens dem historischen Judas in den Mund legte: eine Vert...
Der Filmemacher Thomas Riedelsheimer beobachtet und begleitet die gehörlose Perkussionistin Evelyn Glennie bei den Aufnahmen für ihre neue CD. Während man Glennie als "klassische" Musikerin bezeich...
Ambitious spanish-french co-production (costed one million pesetas in those years) based on the life of Christopher Columbus.
Baron Felix and Madame Vera Wadjevska, a pair of con artists, have gotten their hands on a manor in Oslo, after stealing the deceased owner's identity papers while abroad. The dead man's nephew, Helge...
In preparion for war, German and French ships and hydroplanes are launched in Wilhelmshaven and Lorient. The war technology is depicted in an objective and proud manner, which today seems in stark con...
Based on an English fairy tale in which poverty forces Jack to sell their cow, but in exchange gets beans instead of money. Eventually he uses the magic beans to wind up in the castle of the giant.
Spendid shots of the famous waterfalls filmed on the Canadian side and distributed at the time by the Belgian Cingraphique University, founded in 1926 and specialised in the distribution of documentar...
Melodrama, about a father and son sharing the love for the same charming girl. A dramatic night storm leads to jealousy and loss of honor.
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...
Melodrama about presumed adultery, jealousy and honour.
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 ...
Short reportage about seaplanes, stationed on an aircraft carrier. On the ship the seaplanes are repaired and getting ready. The seaplane is being lifted on board and takes off. Subsequently aerial sh...
Reportage about Austrian war ships and submarines. Images of life on board of the ship 'Tegetthof', navigation (with log and sextant), signals with flags, a torpedo boat flottilla at full speed and t...
A German officer addresses his men in a dugout. They emerge from the dugout and man their trench against an Australian attack. The Australians storm the trench and throw grenades down into the dugouts...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
French language version of a newsreel item on the town of Amiens after the German failure to capture it, showing a pan over the town and the outside of the cathedral, Western Front, 5th-7th April 1918...
Presentation of the activities of Winter Aid in Belgium. Winter Aid was the national-socialist organisation that took over all social assistance works, as they were exercised by government and church,...
Reportage about the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Germany and Prince Ernst Augustus of Cumberland.