Tonbild zur Arie "Mag der Himmel dir vergeben" aus dem dritten Akt von Friedrich von Flotows Oper "Martha". Tonbild ist eine Bezeichnung für frühe Kinofilme mit Synchronton (aufgezeichnet und abgesp...
Die 25-jährige Inga ist in einem kleinen Dorf in Mecklenburg aufgewachsen. Als sie wenige Monate alt war, ist ihre Mutter Anne bei einem Badeunfall in der Ostsee ertrunken – so haben es ihr zum...
Dokumentarfilm über die politischen Aktionen der Kunst- und Musikszene in Kairo nach dem "ägyptischen Frühling" im Jahr 2011. Die Entmachtung von Präsident Mubarak wirkte für die meisten Künstle...
Nach einem Schneesturm im französischen Zentralmassiv findet die Polizei ein verlassenes Auto und steht bald vor einem Rätsel, denn die Besitzerin ist unauffindbar. In der Nähe befindet sich ein Ge...
Wie jedes Jahr fahren sechs Jugendliche aus einem Harzer Dorf für ein paar Tage in eine abgelegene Hütte im Wald, um inmitten der Natur Gemeinschaft und Freizeit zu erleben. Diesmal aber entwickelt ...
Bei einem Autounfall verliert der junge Theaterregisseur Jakob sein Augenlicht. Zunächst wird er mit seiner völlig neuen, beschwerlichen Lebenssituation nur sehr schlecht fertig. Auf seine Hilflosig...
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...