Dokumentarfilm über den italienischen Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, der 1957 mittellos starb und so den Welterfolg seines einzigen und erst posthum veröff...
Nachdem der Familienvater Michael seinen Job als Bauingenieur verloren hat, zieht er mit seiner Frau Friederike und der achtjährigen Tochter Selma in eine heruntergekommene Wohnung in Hamburg-St. Pau...
Der junge Türke Yusuf lebt mit seiner Mutter Zehra am Rande einer anatolischen Kleinstadt. Mit dem Verkauf selbst hergestellter Milchprodukte halten die beiden sich mehr schlecht als recht über Wass...
Ein so genannter "Omnibusfilm", in dem elf namhafte deutsche Regisseure versuchen, die Stimmung in der krisengeschüttelten Bundesrepublik nach der Entführung und Ermordung Hans Martin Schleyers sowi...
Dokumentarischer Film-Essay, bei dem der französische Filmemacher Robert Bober auf das Wien zur Zeit zwischen dem Ersten Weltkrieg und dem Erstarken des Nationalsozialismus in den 1930er Jahren zurü...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The Danish film journal FILMEN was published in the period 1912-1919 (24 issues per year). First published under the name "A/S Kinografen", then from 1913 under the name "Association of Cinema Theatre...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...