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

Documentary short about the production and usage of copper.

German TV-movie.

A portrait of Bremen, the city between yesterday and tomorrow.

A look at the work of an electrical engineer.

Education about the railroad. Model railroad footage is combined with real railroad footage.

Documentary about a city near the West German border to East Germany.

A report on the Film Academy in Ulm, Germany

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.

The Drill family lives in a big city house where everything runs smoothly. The father drives a small van with groceries, the son rides a motorcycle, the daughter rides a bicycle, and Mr. Höflich from the floor below, who adores the daughter, drives a small car. But in order for everyone to be one big family in traffic, they have to be considerate of each other.

An attempt to psychologically fathom the soul of the masses.

Short film about foxes

A portrait of the Upper Rhine Plain.

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.

Short film about Hamburg, the industrial city and major transshipment hub.

A German Film Award winning black & white documentary.

The film, which features objects based on found items, shows surreal, deserted landscapes in which the objects seem to observe and follow each other. The images, composed like a dream with breaks and illogical repetitions, are reminiscent of surveillance scenarios, while the rough sound collages by English composer and Stockhausen student Cornelius Cardew reinforce the impression of menace and coldness.

Educational film about steele production.

A short film commissioned by a train museum. In the night of the 100th birthday of the first train in Germany, all the trains in the museum come to life.

A look at the cultural, historical, and urban development of Kassel.

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

Educational short about lead-acid batteries.

Documentary about German city Oberhausen.

Short documentary of 1956

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 short film showing the final of the 1952 football championship between VFB Stuttgart and 1. FC Saarbrücken.

Winner of Best Arts and Science Film at the 1st Berlin Film Festival

An insight into the training of recreational pilots.

For three years, West Berlin is dependent on electricity from the Soviet zone. "City out of Darkness" describes the conditions before, during and after the Berlin blockade.

A re-education film about the everyday working life in a shipyard, directed along the lines of the British documentary school of the 1930s. In a way that is trade union friendly, but sceptical of socialism, the social market economy is promoted as a guarantor of overall social security and stability. As one was happy to believe.

A portrait of Hamburg and its people.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

short by Clarissa Dreyer-Patrix

In the film, glass shards, screws, wires, and other elements from a toolbox are used to create an original play.

A film about the painter Ludwig Richter

A film about photography as an artistic medium.

Short film about money.

A short film about the new generation.

Famed radio station RIAS (Radio In the American Sector), which brought news and entertainment to the people of Berlin and Communist East Germany, is featured in this report. In the western sectors of the city reconstruction is proceeding apace, thanks to Marshall Aid. Leading European artists entertain at a concert. Marshall Plan Administrator Paul Hoffman opens the American exhibit at the new West Berlin Industries Fair.

Documentary about ways to defeat stress.

Documentary short (Kulturfilm) about East Frisia.

Detten Schleiermacher did not start making films until late in life. He was actually a typographer. With “Trab Trab” he made an impish attempt to create a synthesis between Dadaism and New Objectivity. The film is a precise and elegant account of a racecourse. It does so without narration or images of either horses or patrons; everything we see has been captured either pre- or post-race.

The daily routine in the small village of Großdingharting near Munich.