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During the liberation struggle two organisations, the FLOSSY and the NLF, were fighting against the British occupation troops. Mainly the petit bourgeoisie and trade unionists from the Crown Colony of Aden supported the FLOSSY. The leadership of the NLF came from the rural areas and had the support of the peasants and the tribes. Although the NLF had liberated large tracts of the country, it did not seem to stand a chance in the decisive battle for Aden. However, the NLF won and took over the administration in the areas that had been formerly occupied by England. The film is about this revolution. lt shows how land reforms were implemented and describes the effort to find an economically self-supporting and politically independent system. Later, South Yemen came totally under the control of the Soviet Union. The German Democratic Republic was in charge of the political police and the dream of an independent revolution evaporated – as it did in Cuba.

The film shows the traffic behavior of children between the ages of three and six. With the help of their parents, they are systematically prepared for the demands of urban traffic in different age groups. In most cases, their independence in the trained situations is then tested.

Short film about the addictive nature of alcohol

What happened in the GDR on 17 June 1953? Using a lot of original footage, Norddeutscher Rundfunk looks back on the events in a detailed report marking their 20th anniversary and shows different interpretations and explanations. Agent coup? Workers’ revolt? Popular uprising? The interpretations were controversial, even among contemporary witnesses and Western historians.

Max and Fay meet on a train. The two become emotionally close. She dreams of him as a hero. Max would like to see her as Marylin Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

Short film about safe street crossing

High up north, in the Stralsund People’s Dockyard, Gitta Nickel encounters a youth brigade whose members speak frankly: “I’m 27 now. Judging from my own example I can say: it’s been nothing but work, really nothing. I can really say that about me, stark and stiff.” Stralsund as the focal point of socialist conditions of value creation: A ship may be completed every two weeks, but housing, let alone leisure facilities aren’t. The diagnosis: The quality-of-life to performance ratio is less than ideal. The brigade’s team spirit, though, is still strong, even if, as some think, there are some shortcomings on the “ideological side”.

The film follows two workers in industrial factories from Jena and Leningrad (modern day’s St. Petersburg) and asks them about their expectations for the future. There is a focus on the personal experience, but also politics and society are openly addressed.

Documentary about German proletarian films in the 1920s

German film.

Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from former members of the International Brigades who joined the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War and from members of the Workers’ Commissions ('Comisiones Obreras').

Educational film about the Frankfurt airport.

Hypnotic short film about the mundaneness of truck driving.

The much-yearned-for adventure presents itself to a prince and his friends: a mission to liberate a young man’s kidnapped beloved. But her personal description leads them to a different woman with whom the prince now falls in love. Suddenly, they find themselves at war and see their true task here: to rescue culture from the barbarians.

"New tasks are emerging for filmmakers on behalf of the labour movement" – this early work by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Wochenschau 4, was produced as a collective effort within the highly politicised DFFB (German Film and Television Academy, Berlin). It not only documents the "Hot Autumn"– the strike movement in Italy in 1969/1970 – but is itself a contribution to the "campaign for counter-information" to reporting on middle-class radio and television.

For the Turks, the Federal Republic of Germany has become a magnet and a hope of escaping the social problems of their homeland; however, they also face social problems in the Federal Republic.

Turkish women in the Federal Republic of Germany work on the assembly line, provide for their families and are isolated. In Remscheid, a group from the Protestant Clarenbach congregation has taken on this problem. Their offer: language and sewing courses, cozy get-togethers.

This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.

Directorial debut by Klaus Hofmann and Bernd Siebert, shot on 8mm.

Deutsche Bahn informs customers about transportation technology and the various methods of transport.

Pseudo-documentary film supposedly directed against the sex racket.

In the final phase of the Vietnam War, in the summer of 1973, former ZDF correspondent Peter Scholl-Latour and his team were temporarily arrested in an area of South Vietnam controlled by the National Liberation Front. After checking their identities, they were allowed to film for a few days in Vietcong territory to document the harsh daily life of the jungle fighters.

Housework seen from a radically subjective point of view. The film shows a woman’s hands busy washing the dishes, which include a white porcelain cup in the shape of a woman’s body. Monika Treut said of the film in 1978 that “something very familiar suddenly comes at us from the screen as something completely unusual”. It was shot with Margaret Raspé’s famous “camera helmet”, which had an Agfa Super 8 Microflex camera attached to it, placing the viewfinder in front of the eye.

Documentary about italian western movies.

Speak Out, produced in 1971 by Radio Bremen with English actors, was the second English language course on German television after Walter und Connie (1963, with Anne Lawson and Brian McDermott). The episode shows real footage of the au pair of the Tanner family, a middle-class English family, learning how to make beds the English way. The characters speak British English at a slightly slower pace. In the three parts of the film, the student is familiarized with the English way of making beds and learns the relevant vocabulary. In the process, they progress from initial visual and auditory comprehension to repetition and finally to the independent use of sentences with the form 'have got to'.

A film by Fritz André Kracht

A film by Fritz André Kracht

From the polarity of television viewer, a state of suspension of consciousness is induced through steadily lengthening panning shots. Reality evaporates.

Walter S. prepares his escape from constant conformity. As he flees, he feels watched, insecure, compelled to stay. As he crosses the border to the other country - his 'dreamland', freedom - he is shot.

Altai Kasim came to Germany as a guest worker and eventually brought his family with him. Today, they all have a job in Germany. Nevertheless, they are not happy. They miss their homeland.

Two reports on the housing situation of Turkish workers are juxtaposed, both edited from the same raw material. The film strings together evidence for two completely different claims.

The birth, feeding and upbringing of fawns are shown, as well as the dangers for newborn deer. The multifaceted interplay between doe and fawn, as well as the gradual development of typical behavioral patterns in the fawns are also depicted, as are the diverse behaviors during the mating season.

During the approximately one-hour performance, the performer holds an iron rod in her hand, which she uses to move a video camera mounted on a tripod at the edge of the painting. The filmed hands of the performer can be seen on two monitors using the closed-circuit method, in which what is recorded is played back immediately. During the performance, the piercing sound of a whirling wood, a ritual instrument of the Australian Aborigines, can be heard.

A film by Ed & Irm Sommer

Documentary short about the construction of a subway tunnel in Berlin, using a tunnelling shield.

The educational film is a variation on an old theme. It shows that human coexistence is a complicated but learnable art.

Anna and Ulrike are very different siblings. Anna is almost grown up, has a large circle of friends and gets on well with everything in life. Ulrike, a few years younger, is quite the opposite. She lives in a world of pipe dreams, can't fit in anywhere well and Anna is the victim of her countless fantasy fairy tales.

The film illustrates the correct use of the 'right' and 'left' in the traffic reality of a cyclist. The first part deals with the correct behavior of a nine-year-old boy. The second part of the film presents a total of three sequences of incorrect behavior.

In addition to historical facts based on the presentation of monuments, the short film primarily points out today's lifestyles of the medieval town of Vellberg, Germany

German TV movie

A BAFTA award nominated documentary illustrating the many and varied uses of pigments in the home, industry etc.