Tredje del af en citatsamling af dokumentarfilmklassikere ¿ 15 i alt ¿ fra tyverne til halvfjerdserne. Hver titel introduceres og karakteriseres undervejs: »The Quiet One" (»Et barns ensomhed"), 1...
Lady Sarah Ashley rejser til en fjern udørk i Australien, hvor hun møder den upolerede kvægdriver, The Drover og den forældreløse dreng, Nullah. For at redde den jord hun har arvet, skal hun driv...
Filmen fortæller den sammensmeltede historie om den 15-årige børnesoldat Johnny ¿Mad Dog¿ og den 13-årige pige Laokole, der er på flugt med sin forkrøblede far, samtidig med at hun forgæves f...
Fabulerende fantasi og musikalitet lyser ud af disse eksperimenterende animationsfilm. Båndet rummer »Ballet Ballade" (12 min): Et par danser sig gennem historien. »The Saints" (4 min): En jazzet m...
I forbindelse med udgivelsen af det kritikerroste album 'Into The Great Wide Yonder' drog den danske electro-ekvilibrist Trentemøller og hans band på turné. Turnéen startede i København i slutnin...
En mockumentary om Nicolai, en ambitiøs (og lettere virkelighedsfjern) elev fra KBH Film og Fotoskole i gang med sin afgangsfilm. Han har valgt at filme hele processen undervejs, som en form for behi...
We follow the 33 years old Patrick Small's train journey to Paris where he is going to meet his mother.
Mathias, age 8 years old, is writing an essay for school entitled »How to Understand Women". Obviously, his fieldwork turns out to be quite difficult.
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
An investigation of the world of photo illustrated comics.
A surprising tesimonial of Milanese transport in early Fifties, when the legendary old Peg Leg was put in storage, to be replaced by modern trains. Film restored in collaboration with Guido Guer...
The hard life in Porto Ulisse, a village of fishermen near Catania.
Life in the port of Naples.
Promotional documentary on missionary work in Belgian Congo. Commissioned by the Priests of the Sacred Heart, who are trying to recruit new missionaries for the Belgian colony of Congo.
La construction du Résidence Palace de Bruxelles, racontée dans l'ordre chronologique, de 1923 à 1927. Le film a sans doute été réalisé pour le Crédit général hypothécaire et mobilier, maî...
Report on the 30 day visit of a group of Congolese officials to Belgium in 1953.
Unfinished version of the fictionalised documentary by Francis Martens set in Brussels' Marolles neighbourhood.