Zweiter Kinofilm über die Erlebnisse des Weltentdeckers Willi Weitzel, der vor allem durch die Kinder-Wissensserie "Willi wills wissen" bekannt wurde. Angeregt von einem 11-jährigen Mädchen namens ...
Deutschland, April 1945. Die deutsche Armee steht kurz vor der Kapitulation. Die Führungsriege der Nazis um Adolf Hitler hat sich in einen Bunkerkomplex zurückgezogen. Erzählt aus der Perspektive v...
Ein ganzes Jahr begleiteten die Macher des Dokumentarfilms "El Bulli - Cooking in Progress" den berühmten 3-Sterne-Koch Ferran Adrià und seine Helfer. Der Film gibt einen Einblick in d...
Im Rahmen der Filmreihe "GELIEBT UND VERDRÄNGT - Das Kino der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949 bis 1963" im Deutschen Filmmuseum hielt Lars Henrik Gass (Direktor der Internationalen Kurzfil...
Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Sachbuchs von Jörn Klare. In Form einer persönlichen, dokumentarischen Suche geht der Filmemacher Peter Scharf der Frage nach, wie der "Wert" eines Menschen in verschied...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
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...
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...