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- War Office film warning soldiers of the dangers of contracting venereal disease.
- As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of the law assemble. The confrontation between order and disorder ensues, with our heroine caught up in it.
- With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images from tribal cultures and contemporary modernist concepts. The images react, interpenetrate, perhaps attack, absorb and separate, until a final symbiosis (or redemption?) is achieved.
- This silent early 1930's educational film illustrates the need to be honest with children about human reproduction. Giving practical examples of explanations for children for infants to teenagers.
- The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.
- In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
- The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- A young man is warned by his older cousin, a hospital doctor, about the dangers of 'running with the fast set' and is taken on a tour of a hospital, where he is told about the effects on venereal disease on men, women and children. The need seek treatment and complete that treatment is emphasize. How will the 'Court of Public Opinion' find against our young protagonist?
- Newsreel footage of some of the most outrageous early flying contraptions--some of which even succeeded in lifting off the ground.
- During World War II, five civilians from different backgrounds become reluctant conscripts in the British Army.
- This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- Recently demobbed Hector Andrews fights a local election to stop the glen in his village, Cadisburn, being sold for development. A short film made to emphasise the importance of individuals taking part in local government.
- Family drama spanning three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII.
- Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
- Prior to the publication of Dr Richard Beeching's landmark report The Reshaping of Britain's Railways, which in 1963 changed the face of rail travel in the UK forever, this series travelled the length and breadth of Britain filming the greatest locomotives, railways, stations and trains in operation during the late 1950's and early 1960's.
- An insight of the life of the Pacific islanders and their reaction to modern life.
- Documental account of trains, railway workers, passengers and landscapes in the winter of 1963 in the UK (The Big Freeze).
- A rundown of the latest chart hits, featuring in-studio performances from popular music artists.
- An East German made Black and white film showing the experiences of a 14 year old boy, Martin, set in 1920, the time of the Kapp Putsch.
- A combination of story, melodrama and ballet sets the stage for some of Stravinsky's most brilliant music. This terrific film adaption of The Soldier's Tale offers rare footage of the Royal Ballet's Svetlana Beriosova, who performs in an extended dance sequence towards the story's end. Meanwhile, Robert Helpmann is in his element as the Devil, being the natural choice to play the eight different roles of the Devil using his brilliant talent for mime, dance and acting. Actor Brian Phelan does a fine job as the hapless soldier.
- A collage of trains running on London railway lines set to music.
- In August 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the seventeen year-old son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This resolution signifies a turning point in his life; a farewell to his class and his family. His notions of "transformation" are still nebulous, but are nevertheless linked with a sensible life in a just society. The resolution does not come spontaneously: since he was a child, Gastl, the son of a senior public prosecutor, has rebelled against the decadence and mere appearance of morality in his parent's household. In relating to his schoolmates Feck and Freyschlag, he was constantly torn between admiring their courage and abhorring their evil pranks. He thinks about his friendship with Löwenstein, who is a Jew, and Hartinger, the boy from the working class, and about his tragically ending love for the prostitute Fanny.
- Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.
- Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick's dog on vocals). "Careful" and "Set the controls" are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong. The 80-minute version features studio footage from the recordings of Dark side of the Moon, with alternate versions of Us and them, On the run and Brain Damage, as well as interviews with the band.
- FIFA Official film of the 1974 FIFA World Cup tournament, hosted and won by West Germany.
- The secret World War II role that scientists and engineers played on each side in various rivalries of military technical innovations and countermeasures.
- The FIFA official film of the 1978 World Cup, held in Argentina and won by the host nation.
- The Electric Light Orchestra are one of the most successful British bands of all time. Formed after the break up of The Move in 1970 they pioneered the integration of orchestral instruments into pop music and released a series of groundbreaking and increasingly successful albums through the seventies that culminated in the multi-million selling Out Of The Blue. This concert is from the world tour for that album and was filmed at Londons Wembley Arena in 1978.
- A look at the world through the eyes of a British robin .
- Renowned fortune-teller Madame Ortega is murdered in her chamber - with her own crystal ball. Can the panel channel their own psychic powers to foretell who the mystical murderer is?
- £30,000 is discovered stolen from an office safe - and, to make matters worse, a dead body of an employee is found nearby in the same room. Can this week's panel find the correct combination of clues to crack the code to identify the killer?
- The manager of a Monte Carlo casino is shot dead in his office - can the local police inspector turn the tables on the guilty party?
- A man found shot through the temple with the gun beside him, with a suicide note ambiguously addressed to his fiancée or his mistress. Assassination, suicide or a crime of passion?
- A murder takes place at the climax of a magician's act.
- A diamond dealer and three of his staff catch his junior partner with fifteen uncut diamonds in the office in the middle of the night, with the lights out, brandishing a torch and wearing black leather gloves. Surely there can't be any doubt Whodunnit?
- When a circus owner suddenly dies, his half-brother inherits it. But, rather than follow his dead brother's instructions to divide the circus equally among its cast of performers, he instead wants to cash in and rob them of their inheritance. Which of them is it then who performs the fatal act of doing away with their unscrupulous new ring master?
- While on a visit to London, the Arab ruler of an oil-rich country appears to die from poisoning after drinking coffee. Can this week's panel filter through the clues and find the murderer? Let us see what happens.
- In a busy photographic studio where a William Tell-themed shoot is taking place, the wife of the photographer is found lying dead in a box - with one of the crossbow arrows embedded in her chest. Will the this week's panel be on target as they attempt to identify the culprit?
- Set in the days of Blackbeard, and played like a pantomime. There's dirty work at an inn on the Cornish coast.
- Disturbing documentary, shot on site less than a year after the Khmer Rouge downfall, depicting the shocking situation and recent history of Cambodia.
- Roots Rock Reggae depicts an unforgettable moment in Jamaica's history when music defined the island's struggles and immortalised its heroes.
- 'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.
- Rhythm of Resistance examines the vital role of music in the lives of black South Africans under the oppressive regime of apartheid.