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A proper Edwardian lady patiently endures the ever-increasing disruption to her quiet household when her Truelove gives her all the items from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

An Italian documentary.

The story of two fawns. Little Uwe had brought them home from the forest, unaware that he was putting their lives in grave danger, because does will not accept fawns that have been touched by humans.

An expressive short film in which examples of early and modern art are juxtaposed to reveal correspondences.

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

In ancient times, an old sorceress lived in a mysterious castle who turned any girl who approached a man into a bird. One day, Jorine falls under the spell, is turned into a nightingale and locked in a cage. Her friend Joringel dreams that he can free her with the help of a miracle flower. After much trouble and danger, he finds the flower and frees Jorine and the other enchanted girls.

The documentary shows the remarkably diverse landscapes of the Serchio Valley, from the Apuan Alps to the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Italian adaptation of the Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers, edited from episodes of the television series I tre moschettieri.

Debord directed his first film, "Hurlements en faveur de Sade" in 1952 with the voices of Michele Bernstein and Gil Holman. The film has no actual images; instead, it shows bright white when there is speaking and black when there is not. Long silences separate speaking parts. The film ends with 24 minutes of black silence.

Romantic comedy with Antonio María Barbieri, Gonzalo Grille, Rosario Ledesma and Luis Fatorusso.

A documentary about the cycling race Tour of Germany in summer 1950

Some urchins simulate an accident and steal a wallet. To their surprise, it turns out to be that of the famous footballer Alfredo Di Stefano, popularly known as "La Saeta Rubia". Driven by the admiration for their idol, the urchins decide to return it. At this time, Di Stefano and his wife establish a great friendship with the guys and project together the creation of the football team "Saeta".

A student of the Ecole de France d'Outre-Mer has just been appointed assistant administrator in Majunga, Madagascar. During a study trip, he discovers the most different aspects of the province where he will serve. He crossed the island and discovered its various agricultural productions, local life and industry.

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners exploiting poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. The French eventually allied themselves with the German authorities. After initially having great success, he is betrayed one day. His beloved Julchen, who is pregnant, leaves him to save herself and the child. When Schinderhannes learns that Julchen has borne him a child, he wants to seek her out - but it is a trap ... Bückler and most of his gang are finally captured and executed.

Short educational film about TV studios.

Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The documentary also shows that there is still division among doctors as to whether the NHS was a sound idea in the first place.

The young mayor of Fontenac, Virgile, is much loved by his constituents who appreciate the improvements he has made in their peaceful village. This beautiful harmony is disturbed by the arrival of a young platinum pin-up, Maggy, alleged pupil of the lord, in truth his mistress.

A German Film Award winning short black and white documentary.

A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns to the town. He is mortally wounded by the frontier guards and they get married just before he dies.

A short film which explores various paintings from mental patients.

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist, also demonstrates the relevant anatomy. X-ray cineradiography illustrates the movement of the arm.

Short television report about the filming of the movie "Warum sind sie gegen uns?"

A nature lover's paradise lays in wait for a mother and daughter enjoying a day's excursion on the North York Moors.

This historic film documents the restoration of the House of Commons, which was severely damaged by a bombing raid in May 1941. It also commemorates the secret location, in nearby Church House, where MPs met following the destruction of the Commons chamber. The film features Sir Winston Churchill giving a lighthearted commemorative speech to mark the occasion of the reopening of the restored House of Commons. There is also rare footage of King George VI delivering an address to both House of Parliament in Westminster Hall - the only monarch to have done so since Charles I. Many of the skills employed to restore the chamber to its original condition are also featured in sequences showing the craftsmen at work.

This musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic trio composed of Rouiched, Mohamed Touri and Sid Ali Fernandel, accompanied by the orchestra of the master of the Algiers Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, the singer Fadhéla Dziria, Mustapha Skandrani on the piano. Some scenes were filmed at the Summer Palace (the current Palace of the Algerian Presidency, called the People's Palace). André Zwobada, the director, will play an important role after the independence of Algeria in 1962, in the production and preservation of the first Algerian newsreels.

Follows the life cycle of the desert locust.

Documentary arguing the case for equal pay for women. Women are seen employed in their homes, in factories, teaching, nursing, in politics and in the professions. There are also some newsreel shots of marching suffragettes.

Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

Inspector Maigret investigates the murders of two paranoid women, an unknown woman whose body was discovered by a burglar during a robbery, and a seemingly meek and boring man.

An Italian documentary about ancient Egypt.

This film describes the building of the drilling platform ADMA Enterprise in a shipyard on the Kiel Canal, from where it was rowed to the Arabian Gulf.

The film is made up of 7 short films devoted to ballets.

On display are the movement structures of Heliozoa, the expulsion of food remains, plasmogamy, separation and temporary bridging, "phobia".

Spain 1936: Despite the victory of the Popular Front, nothing has changed for the peasants; the grandees continue to oppress them. The poor peasant son Pablo fights back and encourages the others to demand their rights. The grandees flee. Students from Madrid arrive and help the rural population to democratize. Pablo falls in love with Magdalena and learns to read and write from her. When Franco begins his bloody attack on the young republic, they defend the village together. When Magdalena dies in a bombing raid by German planes, Pablo begins to hate the Germans. However, fighting together with the International Brigades, he realizes that there are other Germans too, and that they share a common enemy.

A noble English dance tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.

Nannina is in love with Vincenzo who is poor and goes to Belgium to make his fortune. Nannina marries a rich elderly man. Vincenzo returns from Belgium and the passion flames up again. Nannina loses her head and wants to kill her husband; however, she is killed by an idiot servant whom she had always rejected.

1944: Geneviève and René live in occupied Paris. They love each other, and the young woman looks fearfully at René's activities in the Resistance. She wants to stay out of it, and sometimes there are arguments about it. After one such argument, René goes to a meeting with a German comrade. While he is away, the Gestapo come to the house to take the resistance fighter Louise away. Geneviève intervenes and is arrested. The men of the resistance are very worried as she knows about a planned bridge demolition. René trusts her, and Geneviève does indeed withstand the torture. The bridge can be blown up as planned, contributing to a decisive defeat for the German army.

Théodora, Thierry de Villiers' governess, has the leisure of scrambling the cards: She combines the meeting in the same apartment of Thierry, his friend Octave, Brigitte, his wife, and Nicole, Villiers' secretary. Finally, Theodora will be sent back to the asylum from which she had run away.

This is the drama of a father who, as a member of the PCI and following Pope Pius XII’s decree, cannot participate in his daughter’s First Communion. Alone and excluded from the faithful, he watches the celebrations from afar.

The lives of farmers working in the Cotswolds.

A German Film Award winning short documentary about the collection and disposal of rubbish.

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing circuits of Europe.