Overview
A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier.
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The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
Documentary · History · Not Rated
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience f...
- Runtime
- 1m
- Director
- Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
- Cast
- Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Marguerite Lumière
Omnibus: François Truffaut (1973)
Documentary · Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h
- Director
- Michael Darlow
- Cast
- François Truffaut, Claude Jade, Catherine Deneuve
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Documentary · N/A
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.
- Runtime
- 2h
- Director
- Laurens Straub, Dominik Wessely
- Cast
- Rudolf Augstein, Heinz Badewitz, Hark Bohm
When We Were Kings (1996)
Documentary · PG
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- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Director
- Leon Gast
- Cast
- Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)
Documentary · N/A
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Director
- Michael Althen, Hans Helmut Prinzler
- Cast
- Michael Ballhaus, Tom Tykwer, Doris Dörrie
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