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A short documentary showing the political approach and practices used to address Oslo’s housing problem in the years after the war. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

The sacrifice of HMS Plym in the first British atomic bomb test.

Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Documentary about Roma life.

Explains the reformation in terms of the church, the cultural rebirth brought about by the Renaissance, the emergence of national states and the new interpretations of the scriptures. Devotes special attention to Luther and the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

Newsreel magazine dated June 1953.

In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose.

Experimental, cinematic symphony of Granada, José Val del Omar's birthplace.

A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.

The Olympic film presents the broadcasting of the Helsinki Olympic Games to Finland and abroad. The temporary radio center built at the Olympic Stadium for the Games is described as the largest in the world. The film also shows the lighting of the Olympic flame and covers the sports such as diving, canoeing, cycling, steeplechase and marathon.

Documentary with recordings from the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday.

Cuban Story: The Truth about Fidel Castro Revolution is a 1959 film documentary narrated by Errol Flynn, and the last known performance work of his career.

Industries in Northern Queensland.

Documentary footage from the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary taking a satirically narrated look at the "Windy City".

Using contemporary engravings and cartoons by artists such as Honoré Daumier, this short documentary recounts the events of the French Revolution of 1848, from the fall of the July Monarchy to the unrest that followed, narrated by Bernard Blier.

Shows endangered human lives and material damage done by this natural catastrophe, struggle against flooding by construction of dikes on Sava river, and the action of medical staff in prevention of epidemics.

The construction of the Brasilia dream is blurred in precious scenes that preceded the opening of the city, filmed as sombre. What will be the future of these buildings and monuments? What will become of the future of these workers?

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis. (MIFF:) These are no ordinary travel notes brought back from America by filmmakers; they are not enthusiastic records of skyscrapers and crowds. but disturbing aspects of a hallucinatory world of concrete and metal, glaring light and haunting shadow. The film is notable for its dramatic use of colour, and music from Bela Bartok's ballet "The Miraculous Mandarin". (a-t:) F.B. confides in his memoir 'Le monde a encore un visage' (1981): "When I went to New York for the first time, I'd brought along a Bell & Howell 16mm camera whose instructions I hadn't read. I didn't know how to use the film, and inadvertently loaded some rolls that had already been printed, which resulted in these strange superimposed images. A well-known process that I had reinvented by accident".

A documentary on the railroads of America produced by the Association of American Railroads

A document on the importance of forests to the national economy. It represents forests not only as a rich storehouse of wood, but also as an important factor for continuous water supply, as they regulate the water cycle and prevent both droughts and floods.

In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of the Royal Academy of Physical Education in Stockholm, Sweden, supervises the children's activities.

The ancient suburbs around the city of Christian IV, which today are a part of the inner city core, are being reviewed in the film. Unique photos of urban environments and old buildings that are now demolished are being shown. **** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

This Traveltalk series short takes a trip on the Rhine river, with stops at Cologne, Bonn, and Koblenz.

An overview of the generation and use of electricity.

A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a picture of the beginnings of the history of the Czech lands, which goes back to the Ice Age 30,000 years ago.

In every industry men still need skill and knowledge, but the addition of a dash of imagination will often mean more pleasure from the job as well as greater efficiency. The film presents four examples: the invention of a ratchet device for turning rails; reshaping worn spanners at a locomotive works; speeding up the replacement of old escalator slats by means of an attachment to a drill; and finally, the thoughtful porter working at a country station who goes out of his way to warn a regular passenger of a change in the timetable.

"The Big Delivery Wagon" is a 12-minute theatrical documentary short spotlighting the national distribution system of the H. J. Heinz corporation.

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

The camera takes us to Northern Savo to follow the burning of the forest. The different stages of the burning of the forest are filmed and the tools and methods associated with them are introduced, including the preparation of a firewood basket and the making of straw bales. The film tells about the food and childcare of the people who burn the forest. The film brings to life the life of the Finnish community of past centuries.

Film by Armando W. Tamburella.

A short historical documentary by Roger Leenhardt and Jean Pierre Vivet that chronicles the eleventh-century invasion of England by William the Conqueror, using images of the Bayeux Tapestry to illustrate the story. As described by Erik Barnouw ("Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film"), the film creatively animates the embroidered scenes to bring the Norman Conquest to life.

In order to completely, cleanly and completely annihilate the Kuomintang troops on the land of China, the Second Field Army led by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping accepted Chairman Mao Zedong's order to liberate the southwest. Photographers from the Central News Documentary Film Studio traveled with the troops and used film to record scenes of the People's Liberation Army soldiers' heroic fight to liberate the whole of China. In 1950, they produced the film "The Great Southwest Song".

An interventionist documentary describing the damage done by mining wells to historic landmarks in Bytom.

I had contrived a scenario in which she ran mindlessly by cages of various animals paying them no heed while they, subject to edited inserts, would appear as excited Stacy observers. I had not fully mastered the tripod and suddenly in the middle of a jerky pan from a drinking fountain the entire tripod is sent flying and never reappears. In fact it has yet to be replaced. Stacy, bored with animals sets out to explore some noises she hears and ends up discovering a merry-go-round. When I finally catch up and help get her up on one of those huge horses for the first time, I see the look on her face, and I know. There’s the film. I should be watching not directing. The unplanned seems to me more interesting always, or at least more possible than the planned. That’s really the film I’ve been trying to make ever since. - D.A. Pennebaker

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. This release compiles 54 memorable films which offer a fascinating snapshot of transport in 1960's Britain. A look at road building in the United Kingdom in the 1950's.

A reportage created by a well-known duo of documentary filmmakers - Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski. The men and their Polish Film Chronicle crew went to Armenia. Breathtaking, mountainous landscapes and historic cities remembering the first centuries of our era – it makes us aware of the importance of the area.

About the history and traditions of the Kabardian people, formation and transformations in the land of Kabarda.

Documentary covering the 1954 World Championships of alpine ski, nordic ski and ice hockey, all of which were held in Sweden.

A portrait of life in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.

The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The first documentary realized by Danuta Halladin after her studies announces one of the main themes of her future films: children and childhood. Alone in the World is a story about orphanages.

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.

This short documentary visits the 3 Quebec border towns of Rock Island, Stanstead and Beebe, and the Vermont town of Derby Line to see how residents and officials cope with a civic life that is cut down the middle by an international boundary.

This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.

A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble recorded at its headquarters – the palace in Karolina (a part of the village of Otrębusy near Warsaw). The repertoire includes: Bandoska, Kukułeczka, Pod borem and dances such as: oberek, olender.

An educational document that clearly shows how the new collective method of building in the so-called "threes" can achieve an increase in labor productivity and, as a result, help to eliminate the general lack of apartments.