At the end of the Second World War politicians including Alcide De Gasperi, Jean Monnet, Paul Henri Spaak, Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer fought a tough battle for European unity. The end of c...
This film is also known by the title "L’ipocrita smascherato". In respect to other FAI films, it contains quite an innovative scene, in which the loan shark is on a train, looking out the wind...
<p>Unidentified film, probably three different reportage films, with Danish intertitles:<br>The attack at Monticello.<br>A pigeon transports a message.<br>Alpine soldiers issue...
A short film about the painter Gino Rossi: his life, art, struggle against the academies, conformity and middle class duplicity. His dissent is unyielding, his life complete freedom, but he ends...
The life of the parish priest don Giovanni Minzoni is reconstructed from adolescence to adulthood, from pastoral mission to extreme sacrifice. The film visits the places of his youth in his home...
The historical events connected to Garibaldi and the Expedition of the Thousand.
The life and work of the great actor Ettore Petrolini.
Documentation of the city of Wetzlar in Hesse at the end of the war in November 1918, including Braunfelser Straße and Silhöfertorstraße. Buildings are decorated with wreaths and garlands of fir br...
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...
This film shows the construction of a big concrete dam in as part of a water power plant in Tunhovd and Nore in Norway.
The film shows the launching of a ship made of armoured concrete at Porsgrunds cementstøperi AS. The ship is launced with the keel turning upwards and turned when it is sea-borne. This event attracts...
Popular Czech singer and actor Karel Hašler in the film "Písničkář/Ballad-Singer" (1932). Main character - a postal director Hala (Karel Hašler) hides his ardent patriotism beneath his shield as...
At the end of the war of 1918 a man continues to look for the remains of his father lost in an unspecified zone of the Dolomites, between the Tofane and Tre Cime di Lavaredo. He is driven by an ...
Misdaaddrama waarin Minnie's verleden haar achterhaalt. Ze ontvlucht Jim om aan zijn slechte invloed te ontkomen. Jim schiet bij een inbraak een man neer en eist dat Minnie hem helpt vluchten. De man ...
Sociaal drama waarin Mario de schuld op zich neemt van de fraude van zijn aanstaande schoonvader. Hij wordt wegens goed gedrag eerder uit het tuchthuis (Eric County) vrijgelaten. Vervolgens reist hij ...
Na aankomst op het station wordt de burgemeester per koets naar het stadhuis gebracht. Verder beelden van het publiek op het plein, de fanfare in de muziektent en de versierde straten.
Komedie over bedriegen en bedrogen worden. De danseres Lena wint veel geld en vertrekt daarop naar een mondaine badplaats. Daar ontmoet ze de berooide kunstschilder Gustaaf. Beiden denken in elkaar ee...