Research Project X-15
The X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the…
Life of Adolf Hitler
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler’s political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documentary offers a sharply critical insight into the…
The Human Pyramid
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a “what if” question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
Brutality in Stone
In his experimental short film “Brutalität in Stein” (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime’s politics of…
Queen Elizabeth II in Pakistan
Part of BFI collection “The Queen on Tour.”
Universe
A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the…
300 Ton Trailer
A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.
India: Matri Bhumi
Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini’s performs a ritual trip with India covering culture, beautiful architecture and also the State of India society, create an impression and a feeling of…
City Out of Time
This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great Italian city’s elusive beauty and fabled…
White Wilderness
The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler
1950’s television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler’s sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi’s and Eva Braun’s…
Don’t Believe in Monuments
A young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. Don’t Believe in Monuments is an early short,…
Ergot: The Story of a Parasitic Fungus
This educational film is an introduction to the ergot fungus, including lifecycle, cultivation, medicinal uses, and toxic effects. The film also summarises methods for the chemical extraction of ergoline compounds.
The Flute and the Arrow
The Flute and the Arrow (Swedish: En Djungelsaga) is a 1957 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
Niok, The Orphan Elephant
Near the region of Angkor Watt, a group of children capture a baby elephant and are just growing attached to it when it is sold to a travelling safari. Pursuing…
After the Ball
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
The Melbourne Rendezvous
Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy in the documentary-filmmaking world over…
Polar Outpost
This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of…
Three Days with Monica
A journalist in Rotterdam has to show the city to an important foreign relation. He shows her the Rotterdam port.
Spring Comes to Kashmir
A short film that captures the arrival of spring in the Kashmir valley.
The Animal World
A documentary showcasing the world’s many different animal species, both past and present.
Keeping Clean and Neat
A look into the lives of a seventh-grade boy and girl as they go through their morning and evening routines… and why not keeping clean and neat brands them as…
Bonefish and Barracuda
Fishing tips from Lee Wulff. Filmed off the coast of Florida.
The African Lion
Part of Disney’s True-Life Adventures series, this film focuses on the lives of lions in Africa.
Heartbreak Ridge
Garcet, a young French officer just out of military school, joins the French Batallion of the United Nations Forces fighting in Korea.
The Vanishing Prairie
Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
The Back of Beyond
This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track.
Roald Amundsen
Adolf Hitler – Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein FĂĽhrer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously…
Doom Town
Mahatma Gandhi: 20th Century Prophet
Funded by the American Academy for Asian Studies and assembled from more than 10,000 feet of newsreel and documentary footage spanning 37 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s life from his early…
Halfway to Hell
Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.
London to Brighton in Four Minutes
London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not…
Trance and Dance in Bali
Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali. The famous Kris Dance is performed.
This Is Cinerama
This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer’s peripheral vision is involved. This is…
Wakefield Express
Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.
Visiting Italy
This TravelTalks short focuses on the ancient ruins in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa, and the architecture in Florence, Italy.
Overcoming Fear
Coronet Instructional Media presents a short film about overcoming fear.