The film is part of the election campaign for The Norwegian Labour Party in 1930 and argues against the militarism of the Conservative Party. Scenes from World War I illustrates the horrors of the war...
Various clips from Oslo 1912-14. The opening of the 100th Anniversary Exhibition, May 15, 1914, with people waiting to get in. Market stalls and trade in Oslo city centre. The departure of one of The ...
Two events in the city of Kristiansand around 1918: A rich Norwegian emigrant returns from America, and a memorial for sailors killed in World War I is unveiled.
A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Špilberk is a picturesque castle dominating the modern city of Brno (Czech Republic). Over the course of time it has been a fortress, prison, museum and a place for torture. During the Inquisit...
The documentary reconstructs World War I through the letters of fighting soldiers. Both the situations in Italy and in other warring nations are taken into consideration.
An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. Roberts, in Field Marshal's dress blue uniform, comes down the gangplank, followed by hi...
The film reviews the history and art of Vienna and the empire of which it was the capital for centuries, ending with a vision of the contemporary city.
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...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
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 ...
Russian war drama about the love between a peasant girl and a Russian prince at the time of the Russian (February) Revolution in 1917. As a young peasant girl, Mary Warren (Geraldine Farrar) is being ...
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.
Documentary about four software engineers who want to use their technical knowledge to put an end to their everlasting singlehood. For this purpose they seek the support of specialist Atanas: Despite ...
A beautiful young woman, Liza, daughter of an important businessman, Mr. Leonidas Stergiou, is in love with a poor university student, Christos, who works in a car-repair shop. The latter, however, is...
A dying woman, just before passing away, confides in the couple who have been caring for her that her lost husband is a very rich man. She urges them to find him for the sake of her dear daughter Ali...
Hamlet Free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama: The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy. Thus, the girl lives her whole life as Prince Hamlet. When the King is killed in an assault by ...
The Glory of Life Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Kumpfmüller. In the summer of 1923, the writer Franz Kafka, seriously ill with tuberculosis, travels to the Baltic Sea to recuperate. ...