Two events in the city of Kristiansand around 1918: A rich Norwegian emigrant returns from America, and a memorial for sailors killed in World War I is unveiled.
A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Špilberk is a picturesque castle dominating the modern city of Brno (Czech Republic). Over the course of time it has been a fortress, prison, museum and a place for torture. During the Inquisit...
The documentary reconstructs World War I through the letters of fighting soldiers. Both the situations in Italy and in other warring nations are taken into consideration.
Baldevin and Simen become friends while at sea, only to go their separate ways. Many years later, Simen is married to a wealthy widow. When Baldevin arrives in town, Simen seeks to ensure his friend's...
The film reviews the history and art of Vienna and the empire of which it was the capital for centuries, ending with a vision of the contemporary city.
The documentary makes use of different testimonies of Art Nouveau, from a brief, initial summary of the artistic movement, to an interview with a person (Sergio Tofano) who lived during that era...
A trip to Trieste and its surroundings following the tracks of three great writers: Scipio Slataper, Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Registratie van de beroemde gebouwen van Londen tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Aan boord van een Duits oorlogsschip.
Im streng islamischen Königreich Saudi-Arabien war es Frauen bis 2013 respektive 2018 verboten Fahrrad oder Auto zu fahren. Der Film entstand noch bevor Fahrradfahren für Frauen legalisiert wurde: A...
Deutschland, 1957. Der Staatsanwalt Fritz Bauer erhält entscheidende Hinweise über den Aufenthaltsort des SS-Obersturmbannführers Adolf Eichmann. Dieser gehörte zu den führenden Köpfen im Hitler...
Dokumentarfilm über die deutsche Filmlandschaft zwischen 1933 und 1945: Während der Nazizeit wurden in Deutschland rund 1000 Spielfilme hergestellt. Wenngleich es sich nur bei sehr wenigen davon um ...
Dokumentarfilm über die Lebensgeschichte von José Antonio Gutierrez, der als einer der ersten 300.000 US-Soldaten in den Irak-Krieg geschickt wurde. Gutierrez kam dabei zu trauriger Berühmtheit, de...
Biographisches Filmwerk mit
Tragödie (Kammerspiel) nach dem Roman von
Tonbild zum Duett "Das süße Mädel" (auch "So g'wachsen wie a Bamerl") aus dem Ersten Akt von Heinrich Reinhardts erster Operette "Das süße Mädel". Bei ihrer Uraufführung 1901 war die Operette e...
The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film synopsis: The sailor Freddy is on the run: In Genoa, he was involved in a drunken stabbing that left one person dead. Now Freddy is wanted by t...