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A boy realizes that he could help his parents by doing things around the house.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary that describes, in simple terms, the complete functioning of the human body - skeletal, muscular, vascular, excretory, endocrine and nervous systems

"500,000 to One" is a 1954 short documentary film about bugs.

This educational film shows how to achieve the highest possible yields in raising cattle and cultivating crops using the Kačice agricultural cooperative as an example. Following the lead of the Soviet Union, the Kačice collective farmers decide to operate in working groups and to evaluate their work using work actual units of labour, thereby becoming a role model for other cooperatives.

A look at the Grand National horse race at held at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, where we see the winning horse, jockey and trainer.

A reporter is given a tour of the Nevada Test Site before witnessing an atom bomb detonation, part of the Operation Teapot series of nuclear tests in 1955.

A Burmah-Shell–sponsored “Life in India” documentary, directed by Fali Billimoria, portraying a Travancore fishing family’s work and home life, with attention to everyday labor, household economy, and generational change.

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

Interiors of Margaret Tait's room when she stayed at 21 Via Ancona, Rome, Italy. Brief shots of her belongings (shoes, films, teacup) and then views of the street as seen from a balcony window.

Robert Donnell is a man with an unusual occupation. He is the Carilloneur in the Dominion of Canada Peace Tower in Ottawa. Unseen to the visitors , he serenades them from his room high in the tower with 53 carillon bells ranging in weight from ten pounds to eleven tons.

A short Czech documentary film, capturing the course of the construction and the ceremonial unveiling of the monument to Generalissimo JV Stalin in Prague's Letna.

A montage of scenes from East End life set to a soundtrack of music hall songs with appropriate lyrics.

Development prospects for bus transport in the early 1950s. The film, directed by Harry Lewing, presents express and local bus services as well as the services of the bus stations in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti. The film features a staged filler story: the Suomela family goes on holiday in a bus and arrives at the gate of their summer estate...

A portrait of Hamburg and its people.

A travelogue of Finland, narrated by a Finnish native who returns to his homeland on vacation. Statues, architecture, natural beauty, castles, a restaurant in a fort and saunas are merely some of the stops along the way.

This downward-gazing documentary presents the soil in a new light. Man's inevitable and invaluable associate, the soil is a veritable thriving community in miniature, populated by living things of the animal, plant and insect worlds.

This color film titled “Steel Horizons” tells the story of how steel, specifically stainless steel, is manufactured.

On the plight of Palestinian refugees from the Arab-Israeli war. Dorothy Thompson speaks on the refugee problem. Refugees live in tents in the Gaza Strip, are given blankets and food by Egyptian soldiers, and receive flour from UNICEF. A Lebanese priest conducts services. Refugees work as plumbers, carpenters, tailors, and shoemakers in the city of Jerusalem. Doctors vaccinate refugees against disease. Shows the squalid living conditions in refugee camps, starving children, and emphasizes the hopeless condition of the refugees.

1954 civil defense short film describing the threat of an impending nuclear attack.

Documentary

Seminal Danish documentary detailing Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in the Second World War between 1940 and 1945.

In order to determine the ability to drive after drinking alcohol, three men take various tests when sober and when drunk.

A record of the volcanic activity that lasted for more than a year in Faial Island.

An educational documentary film detailing the role of the Christian church in communities across the globe, including West Germany, Russia, Syria, India, the Philippines, and South Korea.

Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt.

Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress. The pavilion was shaped like a stomach, with a narrow entrance and exit on either side of a large central space. As the audience entered and exited the pavilion, the electronic composition Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis (who also acted as Le Corbusier's architectural assistant for the pavilion's design) was heard. Poème électronique was synchronized to a film of black and white photographs selected by Le Corbusier which touched on vague themes of human existence.

Excavations in the Po Delta provide insights into Greek-Etruscan times.

Educational film showing scenes in Tasmania, in the towns along the Bass Highway. It shows recreation activities and some of the industries.

Documentary film, featuring newsreel segments from the life of Swedish king Gustaf V, put together due to his death on 29 October 1950.

Under the Carribean is the name of a film that was filmed between August 1953 and April 1954 during Hans Hass's exhibition to the Galapagos on his research ship Xarifa. The expedition members' work on board and under the water, as well as their new discoveries, make up the material for this documentary, which is embedded in a fictional plot. Lotte Hass, an underwater model, is one of the main actors.

The 148th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'The Art of Mining', 'Speaking Through Coal', 'Mounted Minors' and 'Record Pit'.

Tailor-made for all those bullfighting fans who want to relive that famous bullfight at the October Fair of 1954 in which the bullfighter César Girón, alternating with Bienvenida and Ortega, cut the ears, tail and leg of his second bull.

An insight into Hamburg's nightlife.

Document about different types of transportation in manufacturing plants and their importance for speeding up production.

Youth without families and perspectives still wander Germany five years after the war ended. "Back to Life" shows some of the efforts to reintegrate them into society.

Photos of restaurants from the outside and inside the restaurant halls. Wanha-Hokki on the corner of Yrjönkatu. Pikku-Hokki on City-kuja. Keski-Hokki on Esplanadi. Pika-Pala restaurant in Sokos-talo. The last episode also introduces the modern kitchen of the newly opened restaurant.

Newsreel covering a concert tour by Claudio Arrau, featuring performances at Carnegie Hall in New York and later at the Municipal Theatre in Santiago. The newsreel includes a mention of the sponsor, El Interamericano, whose weekly flights from Buenos Aires to New York made the pianist’s tour possible.

Created in 1954 by the Shell Oil Company, "Proud Ships" was directed by Philip Armitage. Across and around the world from oilfields to refineries and from refineries to consumers, oil tankers carry crude oil and its refined products. Proud Ships is the story of the tankers and the men who sail in them. It shows the full scale of their world-wide operations, the scope and magnitude of the tanker business and the orderly control of movements and cargoes. The film is also the story of a voyage of one tanker - "The Liparus". From her master and crew members we learn the life and work of a tanker at sea.

The four periods of growing up, from birth to age 20, are highlighted in this training film about learning how to accept help from others.

THe life and work of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelty are vividly recalled in this Pictorial Films production through a moving photographic study of his home. All the things and places pertinent to FDR at Hyde Park, New York are shown in the film , handsomely and reverently directed and photographed by Jullian Roffman. Accompanying the pictorial record is a commentary by Norman Rose and some excellent music composed and conducted by Irving Landau.

An overview of the art collection of Richard Winther.

Documentary. Produced by Franklin Urteaga.

The transport services made it possible for millions of people to participate in Queen Elizabeth's Coronation, and this film reveals a little known aspect of their work on that day. As a result of collaboration between London Transport, British Railways and the L.C.C., 30,000 schoolchildren from London and the Home Counties were brought to the Victoria Embankment to witness the passing of the Queen's Procession on its way to the Abbey.

Hard to Windward is a 1957 Australian documentary film following a boat during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Documentary on Madagascar by J.K. Raymond-Millet with music by Henri Sauguet and commentary by Michel Bouquet.

This short documentary offers a panorama of ancient cities, palaces and temples whose splendor has awed mankind. The film moves from one tradition to another, illustrating how each reflects the sentiments and values of its time, from the massive temples of the pharaohs to the soaring skyscrapers of today.

Documentary about growing tobacco and manufacturing cigarettes.

This film traces the story of Egypt from the prehistoric period to the time of the Ptolemies, focusing on the Nile, temples, pyramids and the Sphinx. Here, Garner showcases a single shot of ruins as light and dark as clouds pass, a signature of his. The filmmaker waxes poetic in this statement: "For Egypt is a monument, not to the conqueror or statesman, but to the artist, the architect, the painter, the sculptor, whose works will remain in the minds of men, when pomp and ceremony are but whispering echoes in the corridors of time."

First Argentine film in 3D, which includes various aerial and panoramic shots, where you can see the most emblematic neighborhoods and monuments.

Union Pacific paid tribute to its Big Boys in a publicity film that has become a sought-out collector"s item for rail enthusiasts worldwide. You"ll see the evolution of UP steam power from 4-6-0s to the development of the articulated locomotive. Then you"ll meet the Big Boys and watch as they are serviced, rebuilt, and run. Trackside and cab shots feature these mighty 4-8-8-4s pulling long freights over Wyoming"s Sherman Hill during their last years in service. This classic film is one you"ll enjoy watching again and again.

Short documentary about the march from Aldermaston to London in 1959, and the perils of nuclear weapons.

Directed and produced by Luis F. Masías.

A tour of sports played in the Caribbean in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. An airplane fly's over Puerto Rico. HA El Moro on San Juan Bay. Watch men playing golf on course in El Moro fort. Shots of water ski-ing and a baseball game in large stadium. Girls play softball, basketball team of University of Puerto Rico practice, men playing tennis. Horsemanship people riding Paco Fino horses. Street scenes of British Jamaica, policemen directing traffic. At racetrack, horses racing, polo and soccer games, shots of paople rafting down a river. Various shots in Montego Bay, beach, a rowboat with glass window in bottom, shots thru window, sailboat racing, fishing. Various, young boy catching a fish, man fighting marlin on line and marlin brought on board, shark gets away, flags run up to signal two catches, two marlin hung out displayed.

Lake Skadar and all the challenges people who live along its shore must face.