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This Traveltalk short concentrates on Holland's historical relationship with its main industry: growing tulips. The country's windmills are also highlighted.

The death of Joseph Stalin leaves the Soviet Union without a leader. Who will take control and seize power?

Short film about glider jumping in the Oberstdorf ski region.

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is Highland' (1951) calls in on the local gamekeeper, nurse, newspaper editor and bus driver as it tours from Inverness to Kinloch Rannoch. 'Wild Highlands' (1959) discovers the wildlife populating the Ardnamurchan peninsula on the Argyll coast, and 'Highland Journey' (1957) journeys by coach and steam train from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye.

Directed by Hurwitz for the CBS Omnibus program, The Young Fighter is a moving portrait of a young boxer who faces key life decisions as he tries to balance his responsibilities to his family and to his sport. The film played an important role in the history of the documentary. It is the very first broadcast example of the technique that came to be known as cinema vérité.

Short documentary film. Produced by Raúl Beraún.

With factories established at Risley, Capenhurst, Springfield and Windscale, Britain's atomic research is forging ahead.

An enterprising family make the most of, not one, but eight seaside beaches dotted around the north of England, all in one summer.

Surf Crazy is the second movie from veteran surf film producer Bruce Brown. During this movie a group of surfers head down to numerous unsurfed spots in Mexico, some huge waves in Hawaii and some classic surf in California.

Joy of Living: The Art of Renoir is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Jean Oser. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

About Gustav Vigeland. **** 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.

A politically motivated dramatic short film from Social Democrats ahead of the 1952 elections.

Reportage from a competitive fashion show organised in the autumn of 1953, with participation of Czechoslovakia along with Hungary, the GDR, and the USSR. In accordance with the principles of socialist apparel, the film emphasises the presented designs’ practicality and their availability for the general public.

Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.

The story of the railroad in Illinois and the train's role in moving product out of the states to the rest of America.

Short documentary about the construction of the hydroelectric power plant Zvornik.

Newsreel magazine from December 1951.

A beautifully evocative three-mile glide along the Thames from bustling docks to bohemian Chelsea.

One of a series of short documentaries giving an overview of the various members of NATO.

An evening at the jazz club Gazell in Stockholm. The place to be for the young jazz loving crowd.

Documentary about anchovy fishermen in San Sebastian

A day in the life of the city and citizens of New York as seen through the fantastic eye, and the incredibly distorted optic lenses, of filmmaker Francis Thompson.

About the work, studies and life of the youth of the Moscow TU metallistov No. 9.

This short documentary illustrates what to do when you're lost in the bush. Filmed in 1954, an NFB producer and a Native guide allow themselves to be marooned in the bush with only an axe and their wits as means of survival. They eat off the land, build their own birchbark canoe and make their way out.

This charming assessment of Britain's bicycle industry illustrates the popularity of cycling both as transport (for business or pleasure) and for sport in the 1950s. Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Training and Customer Service information film sponsored by the Marketing Retail Sales Department of the Standard Oil Company. Features product placement for brands like Atlas and Chevron.

The document shows the staging of the Catholic Mystery of the Passion, which takes place every year in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska.

A documentary about the process of making swords.

Film from the leading American producer of aluminum illustrating the versatility of the material in building and design. Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes was singled out in the trade press for its avant-garde qualities and considered by Howard Thompson as “probably the most strikingly imaginative industrial short subject ever filmed in the United States.” Although originally targeted at design professionals, the short was also successfully shown to general audiences.

Documentary film about the historical and cultural development of the two largest cities in East Bohemia - Pardubice and Hradec Králové.

Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be developed while using a new method called solarisation.

Alberto Spadolini, filmmaker and choreographer, dances to traditional Andalusian music. He pays tribute to the gypsy culture.

A series of images of war and misery.

Following Wonder Africa, financed by three anniversary-celebrating companies, Gerard de Boe created a separate film for each, entirely devoted to their activities. Two of these—Le trait d'union and Diamant, pierre précieuse—were released exclusively in French, while the third, Cobalt au Katanga, also received a Flemish release. This scientific yet accessible documentary presents the industry and social achievements of the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga with clarity, sobriety, and objectivity, offering viewers an insightful glimpse into both enterprise and community impact.

Shown in training with the recently formed Midland Canoe Club, Nottinghamshire miner Billy Churn went on to compete in the Helsinki Summer Games, along with fellow club member Tom Hezseltine.

‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its plan to form and assist a ‘Bring Out a Briton’ Committee in each district. It featured popular Australian actor Chips Rafferty as the spokesman for the campaign. Aimed at the Australian public rather than the prospective immigrants it was designed to allay a perceived anxiety amongst the public about non-British European migration.

Everyone knows that frozen pork is best in summer, even in England. Only housewife Evička is unsure, so a TV guide advises her on how to prepare dinner from frozen meat so that František will enjoy it when he comes home from work. This educational film, presented from the perspective of a kind teacher, reveals the mechanisms and advantages of a progressive, centrally planned economy.

Highlights of boxing contest between Don Cockell and Roland La Starza at London's Earls Court.

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who goes bird-riding at an ostrich farm. The expedition ranges from the central interior jungles and mountains to both coasts and as far south as Capetown, and ends with a gorilla hunt led by natives using 100-year-old muskets.

An array of vintage vehicles - horse-drawn, two and four-wheeled - pass through Hyde Park in the annual Easter Parade.

Documentary about farming in Havrå, outside Bergen. A film from a closed-off small Norwegian rural community.

The film shows the reconstruction of the city of Bremen after 1945 until 1955.

Traditional manual and individual work vs. modern machine and mass production in the context of social development and quality of life.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary looking at the formation of the coalfields; explanation of the appearance of coal seams at different levels; modern methods of assessing and locating quality of new coal deposits. (Part of the "Coal-mining as a Craft" series)

A documentary film about the expedition of Czechoslovak mountaineers led by Vladimír Procházka to Mount Elbrus in 1958.

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.

A historical overview of Sisak, the city on three rivers, from the Roman era to the post-WWII industrialization.

About the inventor Boris Egorov.

Shot in Manhattan’s St. Vincent Hospital, creating what would be the antecedent of the direct cinema (or cinema verité) movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and Engineering Departments go to work with snowploughs to reach the trapped train.

Defence education film intended for children and young people, in which young heroes switch from the class to the training ground and their job is to fulfil a number of onerous tasks. Audiences are educated using the example of a young boy who repeatedly fails to overcome obstacles and who is taught by more adept pupils and the teacher.