Dokumentarfilm über zwei Männer, die Mitte der 50er Jahre als Nachkömmlinge deutscher Mütter und amerikanischer Besatzungssoldaten geboren wurden – "Kinder der Schande" nannte man solche Kinder ...
Dokumentarfilm über Aktivisten, Umweltschützer und umweltbewusste Politiker in Deutschland und den USA, die sich für eine weltweite Energiewende und den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel engagieren. Der ...
Deutschland, 1957. Der Staatsanwalt Fritz Bauer erhält entscheidende Hinweise über den Aufenthaltsort des SS-Obersturmbannführers Adolf Eichmann. Dieser gehörte zu den führenden Köpfen im Hitler...
Für das in Tel Aviv lebende Ehepaar Michael und Dafna Feldmann wird ein Alptraum wahr, als sie die Nachricht erhalten, dass ihr Sohn Jonathan kurz nach dem Beginn seines Militärdienstes gefallen sei...
Der Film beruht auf einem authentischen Fall im bayerischen Passau: Nachdem die Klosterschülerin Sonja einen internationalen Aufsatzwettbewerb gewonnen hat und von ihrer Heimatstadt Pfitzing hochgeeh...
Dokumentarfilm über Charlotte Rampling, die als Schauspielerin und als Frau zu einer stilbildenden Ikone für eine ganze Generation wurde. Sie inspirierte Helmut Newton zu seiner ersten Aktfotografie...
Film production supported by the British occupation forces as part of the Re-Orientation program. A radio reporter for women's issues provokes in his broadcast with the suggestion that women should co...
"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...
Film extracts and sequences illustrating the French cinema and denouncing the taxes for the film industry.
The film evokes the demographic increase in France and the housing crisis to which the new constructions are struggling to respond, with real examples and fictional cases.
The film begins with ge...
An insight into a social life taking place in public cafeterias told from a perspective of a journalist-director. It presents the venue of public cafeteria in contrast to a luxurious restaurant. It de...
Il documentario illustra l'impiego dell'alluminio, definito "il metallo del secolo", nella costruzione di edifici ad uso abitativo, di alberghi, di impianti sportivi
1 - panoramiche su alcune cit...
During the grape harvest, two women trample the grape in Montmartre and pour the juice in the bottle. On its label, Truman and Stalin clink glasses.
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 ...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
Car ride, woman collecting berries on the roadside, debris in Halle (Saale), streetcar, Leipzig tower, market church. Viaduct in Gräfenthal (Thuringia). Woman playing with goats.
A "School for Officers" is established at the historic "Ecole Militaire" in Paris. Staff officers and senior officials from all 14 NATO countries are trained with the aim of forming an effective defen...
The documentary black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows Sorbian Easter riders on their procession from Bautzen to Radwor/Radibor in April 1954. The film also shows securing work on the roof of t...