Documentary

A short documentary showing the political approach and practices used to address Oslo’s housing problem in the years after the war. ***** ...

Andrzej Wajda’s first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it shows the actual process of creating all the ...

A short concerning the excavations in Herculaneum.

Documentary on the fresco paintings of Candido Portinari, who contributed to the development of a more realistic and modernist style in the art ...

Documentary film about new working methods in the construction industry. It introduces the viewer to new procedures and compares them with past times.

Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their ...

Documentary filmmaker Védrès’ first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to ...

The film depicts a young male beaver who must defend his new family against hungry predators, mischievous river otters, and the ever-impending ...

A short documentary on Paul Gauguin, a French painter and sculptor.

A recruitment film telling young male school-leavers about work in the Vítkovice ironworks. It takes them through the entire production process ...

Documentary film about the advantages of joint farming in unified agricultural cooperatives.

Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák introduced a new way ...

Documentary about the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and its post-war construction.

Dutch Movie about the Dutch resistance during WWII. Partly fictionalised story of a Dutch resistance fighter who is caught and executed by the ...

A film about life on the small island of Likiep in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia.

Made by the National Film Board 1949. Directed by Bern Gandy. The expanding activities of the Post Office to cater for communications in an ever ...

A look at Canada’s first national Ballet Festival.

This year the Musica Viva Festival will feature content from the NFSA’s Film Australia Collection to be screened in the Bang & Olufsen ...

A film about Brønderslev’s development from village to market town. Industry is the ‘pulse of the city’. The Pedershaab machine ...

Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his ...

An unclassifiable cross between documentary and fiction, Kipp takes the viewer through refugee camps bordering Soviet-occupied areas of Germany.

Short documentary on the wool industry.

A documentary about the problems of post-war reconstruction and the beginnings of socialism in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

This short film documentary features Shaw Desmond, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research. Shaw relates several famous ...