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London Can Take It!

1940

London Can Take It!

1940
6.6
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
Ancient Egypt

1939

Ancient Egypt

1939
This entry in the TravelTalks series visits the ancient Egypt. starting Valley of the Kings in a remote and desolate part of Egypt, the entrance to tomb of King Tut is shown, though the ts priceless treasure is now in the Cairo museum. A visit to Luxor and the ancient city of Thebes, which date to 1500 BC, follow with subsequent visits to Karnak. The film closes by noting that past and present are in harmony with the water wheel and village well still in wide use in the modern age.
Children Must Laugh

1936

Children Must Laugh

1936
One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, an institution that stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.
Plongeons

1936

Plongeons

1936
From ski jumping to jumping into the Doubs: “Plongeons” is Armand Girard's sporting epic. The watchmaker from Le Locle, who commissioned the film from the Geneva-based company Cinégram S.A., performs physical feats in front of the camera. The most spectacular of these is a jump from a height of 40 meters into the Doubs on 19 July 1936, a record that remained unmatched for a long time. The landscapes of the Jura serve as the backdrop for Girard's sporting achievements, which go beyond nature and physical culture.
Night Mail

1936

Night Mail

1936
6.1
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.
Day of Freedom

1935

Day of Freedom

1935
6.8
Filming of the performance show the Deutsche Wehrmacht (German Army) made during the Reichsparteitag of the NSDAP in Nurnberg 1935. Showing the readiness and the will of the newly build army. The third documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
Three Songs About Lenin

1934

Three Songs About Lenin

1934
6.2
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Jazz a la Cuba

1933

Jazz a la Cuba

1933
One of the short little films featuring Don Aspiazu of his own orchestra, a good example of the style of Cubano jazz in the 1920's and 1930's, combined with some sporadic, picturesque images of contemporary Cuba.
In the Wake of the Bounty

1933

In the Wake of the Bounty

1933
4.8
The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Enthusiasm

1930

Enthusiasm

1930
6.4
A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan.
The Silent Enemy

1930

The Silent Enemy

1930
6.8
In the Canadian Northwest, the Chippewa tribe struggles to find food before the onset of winter.
With Byrd at the South Pole

1930

With Byrd at the South Pole

1930
6.4
With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) is a documentary film about Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his 1st quest to the South Pole beginning at the Little America-Exploration Base. The film's soundtrack consists mostly of music and sound effects, with narration read by Floyd Gibbons. The film won at the 3rd Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.
Salt for Svanetia

1930

Salt for Svanetia

1930
6.5
An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.
The Steel Road

1929

The Steel Road

1929
6.1
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
Man with a Movie Camera

1929

Man with a Movie Camera

1929
7.8
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Simba: The King of the Beasts

1928

Simba: The King of the Beasts

1928
7
Simba: The King of the Beasts is an 1928 American black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Martin and Osa Johnson, which features the couple's four-year expedition to track the lion across Kenyan veld to his lair.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927
7.5
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

1927

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

1927
6.8
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

1927

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

1927
6.1
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Stride, Soviet!

1926

Stride, Soviet!

1926
6.2
Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, film is a tableau of Soviet life and achievements in the period of reconstruction following the Civil War of 1917-1921.