An evening at winter’s end: in Veneto, in the countryside of Treviso (in Zero Branco) the farmers have prepared bonfires for the feast of bread and wine, a propitiatory rite for a good year. T...
An investigation of Africans who have permanently settled in Italy: an Afro-Italian who participated as a lieutenant colonel in the first Italian invasion of Africa; an Ethiopian marshal who liv...
Baron Felix and Madame Vera Wadjevska, a pair of con artists, have gotten their hands on a manor in Oslo, after stealing the deceased owner's identity papers while abroad. The dead man's nephew, Helge...
This documentary is dedicated to Luigi Mercantini’s poetry and to the events of the Risorgimento related to it. Particular reference is made to “Spigolatrice di Sapri” and to “Inno di Ga...
The life of the philosopher Antonio Rosmini in the historical, political and cultural dimensions of the Risorgimento.
The history and life of the military corps the Grenadiers of Sardinia.
The work and the life of the writer Giovanni Boine.
The emergency reconstruction after the 1915 earthquake is still the core of many villages of the Marsica area (in Abruzzo). This documentary is about the villages hit by the earthquake in their ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Non-identified fragment of a documentary about Italian naval operations, showing a battleship, navy officers on the deck, a submarine charging torpedoes and a seaplane landing on the sea. It has no ti...
Vijfde episode van een serie twee-akters waarin een 'society girl' een positie als speciale onderzoeker bij de politie heeft en in elke, op zichzelf staande, episode aan verschillende gevallen werkt. ...
Notes on film’s potential in depicting reality with emphasis on some reels on WWI.
Notes on the use of instructional and training films during World War I. The example of a film produced by Bray Studios.
Notes on the censorship of all films depicting themes related with WWI.
Reproduction of a law act of 1917 establishing to prior censorship of films related with WWI.
Commentary on the film and its subject matter (the tribute to Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I).
Notes on 2 documentary films portraying the countrywide tributes to the Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I.