Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Ludwig van Beethoven

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

1954

Desert Victory

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In en

1943

Let's Spend the Night Together

The Rolling Stones' record-breaking 1981 North American arena tour documented by director Hal Ashby. Featuring the biggest Rolling Stones songs from t

1982

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and German

1943

Africa - Part I - From Morocco to Kilimanjaro

The feature-length film by engineers J. Hanzelka and M. Zikmund captures how the two travelers prepared for their first trip around the world and in d

1952

Africa II – From the Equator to Table Mountain

The second part of the film begins with a journey in the equatorial region, where the travelers managed to capture the most typical images of the orig

1953

Secret Tibet

In 1938 Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler sponsored an expedition to Tibet lead by several Nazi SS scientists to study the regions flora and fauna, and to

1943

Anaconda

Documentary by Torgny Anderberg

1955

From Argentina to Mexico

Travelers Hansel and Zikmund sail from Africa to South America. On their journey to film, they capture clouds of locusts on the plains of Argentina's

1954

The Sixth Continent

This 95-minute, full-color documentary was released in the U.S. as Sixth Continent. That continent is Africa -- or, more specifically, the coast of Et

1954

Südseeparadies

1940

The Wages of Fear

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships a

1953

Black Moon Rising

An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

1986

Never Say Never Again

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuc

1983

Titanic

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury sh

1943

Silent Barricade

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

1949

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

1937

Captain Blood

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

1935

The Beggar Student

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, a

1936

White Mane

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses t

1953