Der Reporter Peter Hansen verfolgt als Geschworener einen Gerichtsprozess, zunächst ohne großes Interesse. Die Frau des einflussreichen Dr. Overbeck ist tot, und ihr junger Liebhaber Meinhardt ...
Im Mansfelder Land, einem kargen Landstrich in Sachsen-Anhalt herrschen für junge Leute keine guten Perspektiven: Früher wurde in der Gegend Bergbau betrieben, heute aber sind viele Leute arbeitslos...
Als Mischung aus Polit-Satire und Actionfilm angelegte Verfilmung der gleichnamigen PC-Spiel-Reihe. Im Mittelpunkt steht der "Postal Dude", der mit seiner Frau "Bitch" in einer idyllischen Gemeinde na...
Dokumentarfilm über den Amerikaner Edward Snowden und die durch ihn ausgelöste Überwachungs- und Spionageaffäre. Die amerikanische Filmemacherin Laura Poitras schildert darin, wie sie im Januar 20...
Begleitend zur Ausstellung Bengal Stream im Deutschen Architekturmuseum zeigte das Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum im August und September 2019 einige Filme des eher unbekannten Fil...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
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 ...
The little Agenore (Ferdinande Guillaume) combines a lot of trouble to family friend Ilario Mentecatti (Natale Guillaume).
The city of Seville and its surroundings in 1914: the cathedral, the Guadalquivir river, the bullring...etc.
The farmer's daughter and her young man spend idyllic moments in the countryside, riding in a buggy and then rowing on the lake. The girl plucks a daisy: "He loves me, he loves me not..." but of cours...
Emperor Wilhelm II visited Norway and the city of Kristiansund around 1913, and the film shows the arrival of a huge German warship. Life in the harbour and on the fjord, people at work on a farm, ...
Reportage about a demonstration flight by aviator Clement van Maasdijk On July 31 and August 1, 1910, the Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gave two flight demonstrations during Heerenveen’s ‘air...
A woman, concerned about the continual absences of her husband, commissions a detective to follow him and report back to her. At first glance this appears to be a classic fictional device, all the mor...
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. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
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 ...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
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...