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A short film by Robert Breer

Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and earning himself the nickname "Don Chaussee". In his absence, the bible-thumping Martha has been running the Sonnenhof children's home with loving severity.

A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if necessary. He will make it even worse with his improper concern for his brother's beautiful wife.

A beautifully evocative three-mile glide along the Thames from bustling docks to bohemian Chelsea.

Jacques Hélian, an attractive charm singer, too stifled by the jealousy of the radio director's niece, flees with his orchestra, on the advice of his secretary Bob. They fail in a small village, where there is a boarding school for young girls. Bob responds to the love letters the teacher sends to the handsome singer.

A young marquis seduces a farmer's daughter and then leaves her while she's pregnant with his child. Many years later he comes back and seduces the girl's sister.

Zoo animals embark on a journey by train

Rudi Prange is released from prison for good behavior. He gets a job in a transport unit but gets involuntarily involved in a smuggling business by a colleague. When two police officers are gun down Rudi becomes the main suspect.

Refugees from East Germany try to make a living in the west.

Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she found work as a secretary for a fashionable artist, Edith Mars. The understanding Edith Mars encourages Françoise's budding love affair with an embassy attaché. Edith is the mistress of the Minister of Justice, and the Marinier parents arrive believing it's their daughter they're interviewing. While Mme Marinier puts up with it, her husband is scandalized. Gr ce to Edith, all confusion cleared up, the father is promoted to magistrate and Françoise marries.

Documentary about anchovy fishermen in San Sebastian

Recovered Zulueta short.

Fountains and gardens, parks and meadows; recordings of all those monuments and constructions from where the water springs embellishing the urban landscape of Mexico City.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his birth.

Dr. Stefan Donat, a doctor from Frankfurt, unexpectedly becomes the sole heir to his wife Agnes' estate after she dies of a terminal illness, even though they had been divorced for years. The change in the will in Stefan's favor was made on the day Agnes died in her apartment between 4 and 6 pm. The original heiress, Mingo Fabian, contested the will. She is 23 years old, Agnes' cousin and was also friends with Stefan Donat. She finds this step very difficult, but her lawyer, Dr. Bernburger, persuades her to take it, as he wants to marry her. The body is exhumed and shortly afterwards Dr. Donat is arrested on suspicion of murder...

Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

In rural Bavaria the violent antagonism between the heads of two farming families, the Sentners and the Hauderers, causes problems for their respective son and daughter who are in love and wish to marry.

Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be developed while using a new method called solarisation.

Adaptation of The Three Musketeers

Alberto Spadolini, filmmaker and choreographer, dances to traditional Andalusian music. He pays tribute to the gypsy culture.

A woman finds the opportunity to change her life when she meets and falls for a man who lives in a cabin far from the city.

A series of images of war and misery.

Shown in training with the recently formed Midland Canoe Club, Nottinghamshire miner Billy Churn went on to compete in the Helsinki Summer Games, along with fellow club member Tom Hezseltine.

Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.

At the end of the eighteenth century, the young Diego Corrientes quarrels with the tyrannical count of Albanes, who, after arresting Diego, orders him to be spanked. Accused of murder and in love with the count's girlfriend, he flees to the mountains and forms a band.

An array of vintage vehicles - horse-drawn, two and four-wheeled - pass through Hyde Park in the annual Easter Parade.

The film shows the reconstruction of the city of Bremen after 1945 until 1955.

Ingeborg starts her new job at the hospital. Her boss is the venerable Professor Burger, a famous heart surgeon who devotes himself entirely to his work. His son, womanizer Manfred, is an assistant doctor on the same ward. After an affair between Ingeborg and Manfred, the father sends his son away and dismisses Ingeborg, unaware that she is expecting Manfred's child. She gives birth in secret. Only when Manfred has a car accident and the father saves his son's life in a costly operation is there a reconciliation at his bedside.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary looking at the formation of the coalfields; explanation of the appearance of coal seams at different levels; modern methods of assessing and locating quality of new coal deposits. (Part of the "Coal-mining as a Craft" series)

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and Engineering Departments go to work with snowploughs to reach the trapped train.

Two girls, a virtuous one and a hussy, fight for a young man in the vineyards of the south of France.

In the second part of the drama, the wounded Jürgen hears about the happy years his father Michael spent with his wife Bim at the "Fohlenhof." He learns how the war took everything from him and how Michael was nearly broken by the death of his beloved Bim, who died while giving birth to Jürgen. It was only through his favorite horse that he began to believe in life again and fight for his son.

In a castle of the Veneto lives Countess Dolfin: she is a fervent patriot, but her husband Count Riccardo intends to use the opportunity of the war (1915-18) to make illegal profits.

Jane and Tom set out on an adventure in which they must keep the corrupt Grimblatt from locating the K-13 fuel for his evil space mirror.

Fictional story following the lines of a Frankenstein type horror movie: A grim scientist, when two of the robots he has created fall in love, orders his third robot to destroy the male one. The female robot subsequently seduces her creator scientist into drinking from a poisoned cup, and makes her escape..... Robot Three was awarded the Victor Saville Trophy (for most outstanding film) and the Alfred Hitchcock Cup (for best Fiction Film) at the 1952 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

A study of the artist, who finds balance in his work likened to the taste of bitter-sweet fruit. The film shows many of Sutherland’s most important works, including his portraits of Somerset Maugham and Lord Beaverbrook, and presents scenes in Wales and the South of France in relation to his landscape paintings.