Hände am Werk - Ein Lied von deutscher Arbeit

Nazi propaganda film extolling the virtues of Naziism and how it helps workers and labor in Germany.

Close your eyes and imagine: ARBEIT – ein Brainstorm mit Harun Farocki

Arbeit macht das Leben süß, Faulheit stärkt die Glieder

Documentary about an alternative old age home in Rumania.

The Wonders of Film: An Industrial Ode to Work in Kulturfilm

Die Wunder des Films is one of several German films from the 1920s that thematized filmmaking through the re-use of existing archival footage. Other titles include Friedrich Porges’s Der Film im Film from 1924 and the Uf

Vernichtung durch Arbeit - KZ-Häftlinge: Sklaven für die deutsche Industrie

Ingmar Bergman inszeniert: „Ein Traumspiel“ von August Strindberg. Beobachtungen bei der Arbeit am Bayerischen Staatsschauspiel

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Legendary British actor Michael Caine, who began his brilliant career on stage during the 1950s, talks about his private life, his work in film and the books he has written.

Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück

Automotive

While Sedanur spends the whole night in Ingolstadt sorting car parts, headhunter Eva is looking for specialists in logistics automation. Two very different representatives of a generation in which, sooner or later, every

Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job

Short film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details.

Workers Leaving the Factory

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of w

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

Wolf Gremm's portrait shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the leading role in the film "Kamikaze 1989", also directed by Wolf Gremm— and as a director working on "Querelle", his adaptation of the work

Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei

A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.

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A Dictator at the Employment Office

The unemployed dictator Udo Schmitt is looking for a new country to rule. He begins his journey like any other unemployed person: at the employment office.

How the Berlin Worker Lives

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "unpleasant" guest, meaning the justice

I'm Working Through Everything... Word of Honor!

Short film made by a group of young directors in Berlin.

Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

Billige Hände – ausländische Arbeiterinnen