The Hilton Hotel rises from the ashes, surrounded by derelict houses and bomb damaged streets.
A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.
Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.
Minimalist movie making at its best: kids learn the art of film language using illustrations and margarine boxes.
A renowned old hotel near Nagoya Station has been in the red for four consecutive fiscal terms. When the old management stepped down, Akio Shibata, who has long been in the board of the labor union, is appointed its new general manager. Shibata's method for reviving the hotel consists of neither the laying off of the staff nor the introduction of performance-based system. He wants everyone to take part in the making of new management plans and for all employees to lodge together and engage in heated discussions about their management dreams all night. Yes, his management ideal is to "have the happiest employees in Japan" working in their hotel. He throws birthday parties for employees and has company cafeteria remodeled. All these changes bring about yet another change in the mind of everyone.
We Protest: 80,000 descend on Hyde Park to demonstrate against Hitler’s antisemitism.
Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.
Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the desk clerk, who paints watercolours and pastels; Jonesy, a janitor who talks about bedbugs; Bruce, a voluble alcoholic who makes runs for residents, picking up beer or sandwiches for them and sharing his philosophy with us; Vinnie, on methadone, caring for caged birds; Cashmere, a prostitute, the only woman at the hotel; Earl, who works downstairs in the Bowery's last factory, and Mike, the general manager, who talks about the changing face of the Bowery. The film concludes with tourists outside the Sunshine, hearing from Seth Kamil of Big Onion Walking Tours.
Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.
Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.
Made to foster relations between the local residents of Rhymney, in south Wales, and the church.
An array of vintage vehicles - horse-drawn, two and four-wheeled - pass through Hyde Park in the annual Easter Parade.
Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.