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Visual poem based on the analogical fusion of plastic musical rhythms and color on a single plane: the screen.

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

Short by Heinz Sielmann.

Reflection on myths.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Perugia and its Italian University for foreign students.

It's fun and frolics with a pagan tinge from Brighton Beach in the 1950s.

A married couple buys a house in the country and spends a lot of money renovating it. But then the two protagonists find a manuscript by George Washington and become rich again.

In a time of increasing mechanisation, this public information film makes the case for the sturdy farm horse.

This West German made report on the state of Israel, not neglecting the lingering problem of Palestine, was meant to open warmer relations between the Jewish people and the Germans after their terrible experience in the Nazi era.

50s fashion meets carpet kitsch in a futuristic fantasy of domestic bliss - courtesy of versatile, magical Bri-Nylon.

Alberto Cima (17 years old) made his first 8mm film in 1959, during the parade of the two presidents on Via XX Settembre, marking the centenary of the Battle of Solferino.

Short educational film about the democratic decision-making processes in a small community.

Documentary nature film. Two boys roam the pre-Alpine mountain forest. The camera accompanies them and observes birds, insects, foxes, weasels, and marmots. A local history excursion.

A compilation film of 3 episodes of the television series "The Vise" – "Behind The Mask", "The Deception" and "Broken Honeymoon".

Animated short film from 1951 directed by Hans Fischerkoesen , made for the advertising of a Trumpf Schokolade product.

An insight into the watchmaking craft.

'This Wall is not a Party Wall' was directed by the Peruvian modernist painter Fernando de Szyszlo in 1952—its somewhat formulaic Freudianism locates it squarely in the historical avant-garde.

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

The film consists of a series of sung aphorisms and Lettrist poems, a compendium of almost all the phonetic works François Dufrêne had produced up to that point.

A film about the refugee crisis in Germany.

A historical documentary tracing the development of powered flight from early aviation pioneers to the postwar jet age, focusing on Britain’s role in the evolution of air travel.

Instructional film of creative gymnastics.

A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.

The story of the ascent of the Aiguille de la République by mountaineers Jacques Fromentin and Michel Bastien. The Aiguille de la République, in the Mont-Blanc massif, culminates at an altitude of 3,305 meters among the Aiguilles de Chamonix group of summits. In the Fontainebleau forest, children learn mountaineering techniques on the bouldering climbing site. In 1954, rock climbing was also practiced in the Chamonix valley. The Montenvers train crosses the viaduct taking tourists or athletes to the Mer de Glace viewpoint. The two climbers take an approach step and reach the Envers des Aiguilles refuge. They then climb this steep and smooth wall, progressing along the ridge. On the platform, a rope throw allows them to climb up and sit at the top to dominate the panorama. Then the return: abseiling from the summit block.

In 1952, former farmhand Erich Kattner arrives in a Mecklenburg village from West Germany to take on a new farming job, which he had originally planned to do together with his wife. She has died shortly beforehand, and so he finds himself alone with the almost unmanageable work. His predecessor has capitulated, the new house and barn are only half-finished, tree stumps still have to be cleared in the fields and much more besides. He is skeptical of outside help. He asks Thekla, the maid of the richest farmer, whom he met on his first day in the village, to start working for him, but she refuses. When she does start working on Erich's farm after an approach from her "master", he only sees her as a work partner.

A Golden Bear winning short documentary about men working stone for building.

Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland, which hadn’t experienced a war since the 14th century, hurriedly fortified its borders with battalions of inexperienced soldiers. The panic, confusion and isolated acts of courage which occurred on that fateful day are re-created in this Swiss docudrama. The story is “personalized” by concentrating on a fugitive German soldier (Heinz Reincke) who falls in love with the Swiss girl (Linda Geiser) who shelters him. Produced on a bare-minimum budget, Der 10. Mai is impressive more for its sincerity and raw energy than for its actual cinematic merits.

The invisible link that powers Austria’s industry, cities and farms is, of course, electric power. Ultimately that power means jobs for the nation’s many unemployed. Kaprun Dam, in the mountains north of Salzburg—Austria’s largest—and some 20 others will provide more electricity than ever before, thanks to Marshall Plan aid.

Film capturing a family holiday on the North Antrim coast, with trips to the Giant's Causeway and the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge.

Short film about the Austrian diocese of Sankt Florian near Linz.

A day in the life of Joe, a chainmaker from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, UK in the late 1950s

An industrial epic plays out in steelmaking South Wales.

Educational film about steele production.

Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Short film about the Montgolfier brothers' first flight in a hot air balloon

An Englishman's children come back home from playing to tell him they've made contact with a flying saucer.

A documentary following the daily life on the island of Rathlin, off the coast of Northern Ireland.

Celebration of self-governance in northern Nigeria, filmed by the english colonial film Unit on behalf of the crown. Formerly lost colonial cinema, currently in restoration.

A new school is built in Brackwede, now a district of Bielefeld.