Hans-Jürgen Buchner hat in seinem Leben bereits 15 Alben volkstümlicher Musik veröffentlicht und ist dafür sogar in China bekannt. Toni Schmids Porträt des Musikers, das zu dessen 70. Geburtstag ...
Der vermögende Selfmade-Man Chris Decker hat sich nach dem Verkauf seiner Firma fast vollständig von der Außenwelt abgeschottet. Er lebt alleine in einem von ihm selbst entworfenen Hightech-Haus in...
Nach dem Tod seiner geliebten Frau ist aus dem Ostfriesen Uwe Hinrichs ein mürrischer Eigenbrötler geworden. Die Tage verbringt er hinter dem Tresen seines kleinen Tankstellenkiosks und abends sitzt...
Aufzeichnung einer Solo-Vorführung von Ben Becker im Berliner Dom. Er trägt dabei eine Rede vor, die der Autor und Literaturhistoriker Walter Jens dem historischen Judas in den Mund legte: eine Vert...
Der Filmemacher Thomas Riedelsheimer beobachtet und begleitet die gehörlose Perkussionistin Evelyn Glennie bei den Aufnahmen für ihre neue CD. Während man Glennie als "klassische" Musikerin bezeich...
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
Newsreel about a group of youngsters flying over Brussels and the World's Fair.
Documentary about urbanism and aesthetics in architecture. This film is a part of the trilogy 'Urbanisme'.
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
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...
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
A commercial for Rex Margarine with the Greek philosopher Diogenes as the main character.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
Keizer Wilhelm II en Keizerin Victoria van Duitsland te paard, begeleid door ruiters, op weg naar een parade op het Tempelhoferfeld in Berlijn.
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...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
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...