Our Folks: The Beginning

Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhoo

A Friend of the People

The social storm after World War I divides the people. In the eye of the storm are three brothers fighting for the lower classes, each in his own way. Waldo the blacksmith wants a world revolution by power and violence.

Other People's Children

The sympathetic farmers couple, Mads and Katrine (Hass Christensen and Malberg) are marked by their daughter's death. Katrine has to avoid other children. When Mads invites six city children for the summer holiday, howev

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Folket i fält

Unknown parachute troops land near Norrköping and the local home defense is alerted.

Norge for folket

The film was commissioned by the Workers' Information Association to motivate rural voters to vote.

Sara Learns Manners

Day to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.

En folkeavstemming

Documentary set in Oslo during the summer leading up to the EEC referendum in 1972.

Oslofilm: Studenter og folkeopplysning

The Student Society’s free education program, affiliated with the University of Oslo, was an important public education institution in the 1950s, with 17,000 students in 1956 and courses ranging from tinworking to child

2045 Carnival Folklore

Like a noise rock Brave New World with echoes of Alphaville, this gorgeous black and white vision of Japan after a nuclear disaster pits chaos against control and secret agents against an oppressive government agency.

Folkhemsdesperadon

An interview with the Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson, received sentences for attempted murder, assault, robbery, and dealing narcotics and has spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions in Sweden.

The People from Simlång Valley

Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.

Show Folks

Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows

Lower Rhine Folks

Hans Steinherr will one day inherit the family steel-mill but prefers a living as a musician. He ends his relationship with ingenue peasant's daughter Hanne and ventures into the big city where he meets a famous singer.

Just Plain Folks

The owner of a small rustic hotel marries a local widow, whereupon the couple sets up housekeeping with their respective grown sons. The hotelier's son is a budding thief, but it is the widow's son who is blamed for his

The Fable of the Throbbing Genius of a TankTown Who Was Encouraged by Her Folks Who Were Prominent

A silent short film of 1916 directed by Richard Foster Baker. The subject is taken from a story by George Ade .

Our Folks

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.

Nine O'clock Folks

In this short, multiple acts perform before an audience in a town hall. Performers include The Aaron Sisters singing trio and the Mound City Blue Blowers musicians. Another act features a tap dancer whose shoes have ext

Norsk Folksang

Emerging from the sea onto land an axolotl swims through complex terrain parallel to a man searching for an encounter with God.

The Creative Person: The Folksinger

Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose songs are strictly topical, commenting on the political and social iss