Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

1954

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

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

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

Z Argentiny do Mexika

1954

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

Africa - Part I - From Morocco to Kilimanjaro

1953

Afrika – II. část – Od rovníku ke Stolové hoře

1953

Südseeparadies

1940

Paracelsus

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to th

1943

The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who

1948

Cover Up

A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by

1983

The Gladiator

A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super str

1938

Irene, Go Home!

A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kinderga

1955

The Blue Lagoon

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy

1980

Journey to the Beginning of Time

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the

1955

Me and My Grandpa

A few days from a daily life of a regular school in Hungary during fifties.

1954

Die Regimentstochter

A Tyrolean rifle regiment adopt a young baby girl they have rescued and she becomes the "Daughter of the Regiment". In 1811, as a full-grown woman she

1953