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...
Reopening of the Eiffel Tower to the public after the WWII and the German occupation.
First, pictures of pre-war Hanover are shown, followed by the result of the Second World War, the rubble landscape of Hanover. Then the beginning and the individual steps of the reconstruction until t...
An amateur film depicting physics lessons at a rural primary school. Boys and girls engage in physical experiments and count, the film also shows an examination. The author is probably a teacher.
The basement of the Parisian suburbs is riddled with quarries and vaults due to the construction of the metro. An entire district of Nanterre collapsed after a landslide due to the erosion of the subs...
Documentary film with fictional elements. The subject of the film is the economic and social reconstruction achievements of the state of Lower Saxony from 1946 to 1950. These are illustrated primarily...
The episode shows how cinema is used in SNCF's technical research. The tests are filmed and studied by the technicians, who can thus make the necessary modifications during the construction, for an op...
The documentary black-and-white footage by filmmaker Ernst Hirsch dates from 1963 and shows final work on the Zwinger, which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and then rebuilt, as well...
Countless simultaneous interpreters work in the European Council in Strasbourg. Among the 'language jugglers' small intrigues, quarrels and comedies take place. A film in the Strength for the Free Wor...
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...