In 430 B.C. in Kos, the founding father of medicine, Hippocrates, comes into conflict with the priesthood of the island, is condemned for the novel methods of treatment he is applying - and is forced ...
This film features the biography of poet Napoleon Lapathiotis (Takis Moschos), one of the most important representatives of Neo-Romantic and Neo-Symbolist poetry, who lived and worked in a historicall...
The son (Giorgos Zachariadis) of an aristocratic family returns to Greece, where he stays at a friend’s house in order to finish his studies in archaeology. There he falls in love with his friend’...
Two young film directors and friends, Giorgos and Kostas, have already lost quite a lot of money with their artistically ambitious films. So, in order to survive, they are forced to film advertising s...
Two neighbors (Nikos Stavridis and Mimis Fotopoulos) argue constantly because of their different tastes in music. One is a fan of classical music but has financial problems, while the other plays in a...
Fani (Martha Vourtsi) is a poor young woman who works at the office of the rich entrepreneur Petras. Her mother Despo is suffering from a heart condition and has placed all her hope of Fani getting ma...
An easily frightened provincial, Markos Tremoulas, is in love with the village president’s daughter, Myrto, and so he comes to Athens to collect a loan, which had been approved, to build a hotel com...
Shot in the valley district of Setesdal, this film shows how the fabric used for the black skirt of the local "bunad" (a Norwegian folk costume) used to be hand pleated. Other entries in this series o...
Gustav Fröhlich, Joe May (left to right) while shooting "Asphalt" (1929)
Gustav Fröhlich, Albert Steinrück (left to right) in "Asphalt" (1929)
Gustav Fröhlich (left) while shooting "Asphalt" (1929)
Betty Amann, Gustav Fröhlich (left to right) in "Asphalt" (1929)
Gustav Fröhlich (front) in "Asphalt" (1929)
Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich (left to right) in "Asphalt" (1929)
Betty Amann, Gustav Fröhlich (left to right) in "Asphalt" (1929)
Trude Lieske, Betty Amann (left to right) in "Asphalt" (1929)
The Public Health Department was created to put reception and counseling facilities into place--with the American Committee's help-- for parents in difficulty. An American Committee nurse, assisted b...
A tour of the Mavor and Coulson Bridgeton works, Glasgow,
The manufacture of SCWS cigarettes and tobacco at the Co-op's Shieldhall factory, Glasgow.
The processes involved in the manufacturing of wire rope at Brunton's Wire and Rope Works, Musselburgh.
An advert for Guthrie's mutton showing that only the best sheep are selected.
The city of Glasgow in the 1940s - its buildings, parks, museum, university and housing, showing the plans for major re-development of the city. Relates to issues proposed in the Bruce Report 1945 - a...
From sheep shearing in Australia to wool being spun and woven into cloth in Scottish tweed mills.