First snow on the front-line. Christmas gifts for the Unknown Soldier. Fire destroys bank notes: it’s wiser to put them in the bank. Women practising fencing.
A recording of 'variations' from Cinderella, performed by The Scottish Ballet. The location of the performance is unknown, but the date on the tape is given as 28 July 1980.
De Hertog van Aosta (Emanuel Filibert I), neef van de koning van Italië, bezoekt de tombe van de Onbekende Soldaat, waar hij bloemen neerlegt. Hij overhandigt het Italiaanse oorlogskruis aan de marte...
The film emphasises the pre-war uniqueness of Britain, rich, insular, with a strong trading position and a free democracy united under the constitutional monarchy. The only pre-war violence comes in t...
Preserved part of the film, filmed on Trupalsko field near Nis, is composed of only several frames – Prince Arsen Karadjordjevic watches the onrush of the Serbian Calvary; military trumpet player an...
The battlefield forms part of the British reserve line, and is still under intermittent German shellfire. The British assembly trenches, one with a very clean white cross "To An Unknown British Hero" ...
Footage of postwar life in Europe: the streets of Munich in Ruin, the post-WWII displaced persons’ camps, Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, American soldiers, JDC (aka Joint) officials, Jewish r...
A young man, Allan Gray, arrives at a countryside inn. At the very same evening an unknown man pays him a visit and asks him for help to save a young girl who is in great danger. As it turns out the g...
Film still from “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person and actor Franciszek Pieczka. Photo: Romuald Pieńkowski, transparency 6x6 format
Film still from “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person and actor Franciszek Pieczka. Photo: Romuald Pieńkowski, transparency 6x6 format
On the set of “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person and actor Franciszek Pieczka, standing. Photo: Romuald Pieńkowski, transparency 6x6 format
Film still from “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person and actor Franciszek Pieczka, center. Photo: Stefan Kurzyp, black and white negative, 6×6 format
On the set of “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: director Krzysztof Kieślowski, cinematographer Sławomir Idziak and unknown person. Photo: Stefan Kurzyp, black and white n...
On the set of “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: actor Franciszek Pieczka, assistant director Marek Piestrak and unknown person. Photo: Stefan Kurzyp, black and white negati...
Film still from “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person, actors Stanisław Michalski, Stanisław Igar and Jan Skotnicki. Photo: Stefan Kurzyp, black and white nega...
On the set of “Personnel” (1975), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. Scene in the theater. Actors Juliusz Machulski, Michał Tarkowski and an unknown person (standing). Photo: Stefan Kurzyp, black and wh...
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.