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A documentary film created using authentic footage that shows the terrifying effects of nuclear weapons, using Hiroshima as an example.

The Bodendieks' pension is not enough for them. So the couple decide to rent it out. What they hadn't planned, however, was that they let out the good room twice - he to the young Lisa, she to Klaus, who is almost the same age. As business-minded as the Bodendieks have become, they believe they have double the income when they realize that Klaus works nights. But things only get tricky when Klaus is in bed during the day and Lisa's boss comes to visit...

A young German climber and Gino Soldà, a well-known mountain guide from Recoaro, meet in Lavaredo to repeat one of the most difficult routes on the north face of Cima Ovest, known as the Direttissima by the Swiss and the Scoiattoli di Cortina. The film manages to document the entire difficult ascent.

It is the story of a young Puerto Rican government doctor who is assigned to fight schistosomiasis in a rural district and informs Puerto Ricans about the dangers posed by this common disease.

Aided by a traveling dentist a man clears his name after being framed for killing a gambler.

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 lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

The faces of beauty are infinite, if you only want to look at them, and the ones of infancy are the most divine. –A. L.

Two and a half million passengers every day all over the country; thousands of trains, each to be cleaned at the end of its journey. This film shows in detail the various types of cleaning undertaken at stations, between journeys and at cleaning depots.

An Español gets transported to King Arthur's court.

Members of a school expedition in Tunisia become accidentally involved in industrial espionage.

Part of BFI collection "A Day in the Life."

11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op painting by Helga Philipp - the result is motion opticals.

A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

British horror short from 1962.

A highly tendentious, but also unmasking, documentary about a shooting club and its traditions in the German province.

The story of a man searching for something, who encounters others, and who wanders looking for the truth.

1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.

A look into the trials and tribulations that confront drivers as parking is one of the major problems today in Britain's big cities.

A look into how police dogs and guide dogs for the blind are trained.

A BBC Documentary by Anthony de Lotbiniere

On November 3, 1918, a group of Austro-Hungarian officers in a makeshift hospital of the Austro-Hungarian Army, somewhere in the Karawanks, is completely cut off from the outside world by persistent snowstorms. A machinist's mate manages to reach the trapped men and bring them the news that the war is lost and the monarchy will be divided. Initially, they plan to shoot him as a deserter. But when the news is confirmed, everyone wants to return to their homeland. For Colonel von Radosin, his world collapses, and he shoots himself.

New ways of cleaning in the mid-sixties.

A day in the life of a family in a regimented society.

The film proves that the apparently ideally and extremely purposefully coordinated relationships between flowers and the insects that pollinate them are nothing other than the result of a very long period of natural selection and mutual adaptation. Phenomena that contradict the preservation of the species must die off. The example of the bee and the red clover illustrates that contradictory relationships can be cultivated artificially.

"Her was shot as my contribution to a collective film of the Italian Film-makers' Cooperative, "Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante", which started out as a Dadaist protest against police brutality. I used a "Newsweek" cutting about the Chicago Convention riots, about a woman being beaten up, and isolated in every line a symbolic word, which returns in the second part with an extension of its original meaning. I remember showing it with an 8mm projector at the USIS Rome Library in winter 1970 as part of a concert of American music." Massimo Bacigalupo

Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.

Trucks, barrows and even stretchers are now using hover power. This film further explores hovercraft and how it has developed since its introduction in 1959.

A short documentary about demolition work.

Giefer documents the International Vietnam Congress, which took place on February 17 and 18, 1968 in the Audimax of the Technical University of Berlin (TU). With his photographs of the counter-demonstration, which was organized on 21 February 1968 under the slogan "Berlin stands for freedom and peace" on John-F.-Kennedy-Platz in Berlin-Schöneberg, Giefer also shows the counter-movement.

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the most complete realization of what he was aiming for with his Turkish documentaries. It's not difficult to see why this was his favorite: here he abandons the historical commentary and documentary observation of the other shorts in favor of an emotional emphasis on the lives of the poor and the unemployed.

The double point of view about a perfect murder in a short 8mm film, which glues the viewer to the screen while paying tribute to Hitchcock.

Short Philippe Garrel portrait of a young woman, Handa, who loves that which is decadent, complicated, precious, cannot stand simplicity, and detests people who watch television.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Rosa, a housekeeper in a NATO office in Paris, steals a micro film for her lover whom she hopes to marry.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The crooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they are all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel 'By Jiminy' by David Scott Daniel.

A British commentary focusing on the lush life of teenagers in Brighton, Northampton and London 1960.

At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in the fields. A promising redesign exists, crafted by a transplanted West German engineer, but he’s mistrusted. Meanwhile, workers and the Party secretary blame plant director Berendonck’s poor leadership. As harvest season looms, personnel upheaval and swift action are needed to install the reliable new machine and get production back on track.