History, Politics and Propaganda
Disclaimer: Despite careful control of the content, image descriptions or image attributions may be incorrect. No liability is accepted for these errors. The content of images and texts presented here date from before World War I to the mid-1940s.They reflect political and cultural views that must be seen in the context of that time.They do not express or are related to views of the owner of this archive. For particularly sensitive materials, we therefore provide background information that makes it easier to understand the old media and to deal with it. Some filmstrips are only accessible without a watermark and in good resolution after proof of academic study, due to their content.| Title | Publisher/Country | Age of the Images | Notes | Images | Text |
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| European History before the Roman Empire | |||||
| La Gaule Independente | Larousse (France) | ~ 1939 | Gaule before the Romans | 24 Images | Lecture |
| Greek- and Roman History | |||||
| Pompeji einst und jetzt | Germany | about 1925 | 53 Images | Lecture | |
| La Gaule Romaine | Larousse (France) | ~1939 | Roman Gaule. | 28 Images | Lecture |
| Middle Ages | |||||
| Grundstock Geschichte Teil 3: Ritter und Mönche | Seestern Lichtbilder, Verlag E. A. Seemann, Leipzig (Germany) | History: Knights and Monks | 18 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) | |
| Saint-Louis | O.S.E.F. (France) | 1930s | Life of French king Louis IX, French filmstrip | 50 Images | no text, intertitles and subtiltes |
| The Medieval City | Still Film Inc., Los Angeles (USA) | 1930s | hand colored, US-American filmstrip | 30 Images | Subtitles |
| Crusades | Still Film Inc., Los Angeles (USA) | about 1925 | after Gustave Doré - hand colored, US-American filmstrip | 16 Images | intertitles |
| The Middle Ages. The Rise of Towns | National Geographic Sound Filmstrip | 1983 | 55 Images | No text, no audiomedia | |
| L'Eglise au Moyen Age. Les Croisades | Larousse Enseignement par le Film (France) | ~1938 | bad quality | 24 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Les Capétiens directs | Larousse Enseignement par le Film (Frankr.) | ~1938 | bad quality | 22 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| German and European History until 1945 (including NS-Propaganda) | |||||
| Dr. Martin Luther | Deutscher Evangelischer Filmdienst, Dresden (Germany) | about 1920 | the first 7 images are missing. Heavily used | 58 Images | Lecture |
| Martin Luther - Ein Kämpfer Gottes für das deutsche Volk | Film-Vertriebsgemeinschaft Berlin (Germany)
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after 1940 | Luther a fighter for the German people | 52 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Der große Bauernkrieg | Deutscher Lichtbilddienst, Berlin Nr. 2122 (Germany) | before 1929 | Heavily used. German Peasants War | 40 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Deutschlands Grenzentwicklung in 11 Jahrhunderten | Seestern Lichtbilder, Verlag E. A. Seemann, Leipzig (Germany) | after 1920 | German borders - development | 14 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) (Images 12 - 14 missing) |
| Grundstock Geschichte Teil 7: Von der französischen Revolution bis zum Frankfurter Parlament | Seestern Lichtbilder, Verlag E. A. Seemann, Leipzig (Germany) | French Revolution | 17 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) | |
| Das Hakenkreuz | Stoedtner V | ~ 1935 | history of the Swastika, before the NSDAP | 35 Images | Lecture |
| Auf nach Hannover! Stahlhelm-Versammlung 1933 | DLG (Germany) | 1933 | WATERMARKED | 85 Images | texts in between |
| Nürnberg - Parteitag der geeinten Nation | DLG V | 1933 | NSDAP convention in Nuremberg. WATERMARKED | 50 Images | no text |
| La Guerre Franco-Allemand 1870/71 | Editions Nouvelles Pour L'Enseignement (France) | 1950s | 38 Images | French subtitles | |
| Was wir verloren haben. Entrissenes, doch nie vergessenes deutsches Land | Deutscher Evangelischer Filmdienst (Germany) | 1921/22 | Images of German territories lost after the treaty of Versailles. After the book | 55 Images | Lecture |
| Deutsche Einheit - Deutsche Freiheit - Zum 10. Verfassungstag | Deutscher Lichtbilddienst, Berlin Nr. 2009 V | 1929 | German Constitution 10th anniversary | 30 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Königin Luise | (Germany) | After the book 'Die Königin Luise' | 48 Images | Image list | |
| Brennendes Spanien | DLG Bildband, Nr. 303 (Germany) | 1937 | Spanisch civil war, seen by National Socialists More about the conflict | 61 Images | Lecture |
| Sowjetkultur droht | Vereinigung für praktische soziale Arbeit, Breslau (Germany) | nach 1931 | Propaganda against Bolshewism and the Soviet Union | 56 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Tausend Jahre französischer Raubpolitik | Filmdienstverlag (Germany) | vor 1933 | Explanation of the conflict: Dirk Suckow: Deutscher Rhein, Französischer Rhein, 2012 | 55 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Opfer und Dank | FVG Mf. 1478 (Germany) | zw. 1944 u. 1945 | 57 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) | |
| Unser Saarland | Deutsche Lichtbild Gesellschaft - DLG (Germany) | 1935 | Explanation: Frank G. Becker "Deutsch die Saar, immerdar!" : die Saarpropaganda des Bundes der Saarvereine 1919—1935 | 53 Images | no text |
| 21. März 1933 | Deutsche Lichtbildgesellschaft - DLG (Germany) | 1933 | Propaganda by NSDAP | 80 Images | intertitles, Lecture by Matthias Grünzig 2018: "Der Tag von Potsdam" |
| Hütet euch vor der Fremdenlegion! | Verlag Deutscher Evangelischer Filmdienst Dresden (Germany) | ~ 1925 | heaviliy used, propaganda against the French Foreign Legion | 50 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Los von Versailles! | DLG | between 1935 and 1938 | Propaganda against the Treaty of Versailles | 60 Images | Lecture |
| Um Ruhr und Rhein | Verlag Deutscher Evangelischer Filmdienst, Dresden (Germany) | nach 1933 | Documents about the Conflict 1923:http://www.archive.nrw.de/ Propagandaflugblätter, Rede Hindenburgs, Plakat-Ruhrkampf | 50 Images | Lecture |
| Der bewaffnete Aufstand | Erkart Verlag, Berlin (Germany) | nach 1936 | Anticommunist propaganda | 46 Images | Original book the filmstrip is based on |
| Der Kampf der Sowjets gegen die Kirche Christi | FVG (Germany) | 1941 | Anti-Soviet propaganda by the Lutheran church, based on Fülöp-Miller - The Mind And Face Of Bolshevism | 52 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Der Rhein ist frei | Deutscher Lichtbild Dienst Lf 902 (Germany) | ~ 1928 | Occupation of the Rheinland after WW I | 40 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Auf See unbesiegt | Filmosto - Das Gute Bildband (Germany) | after 1925 | heavily used | 65 Images | Lecture |
| So war der Krieg | Filmosto - Das Gute Bildband (Germany) | ~ 1925 | Photobook by Franz Schauwecker "So war der Krieg" | 50 Images | Lecture |
| Kriegsgefangenschaft in Frankreich | Deutscher Evangelischer Filmdienst (Germany) | 1920s | PoW in France, bad quality, heavily used | 55 Images | Lecture |
| The Life Boat | Newton & Co., London (England) | 1920er Jahre | British filmstrip on a wooden spool | 52 Images | list on filmstrip itself |
| Monatsschau Januar 1927 | Filmosto (Germany) | 1927 | News January 1927 | 103 Images | intertitles |
| Monatsschau Februar 1927 | Filmosto (Germany) | 1927 | News February 1927 | 103 Images | intertitles |
| Faidherbe | O.S.E.F. (France) | 1930s | Life of General Louis Faidherbe, French filmstrip | 31 Images | no text, subtitles |
| Heroic Actions and Daring Deed of the Great War 1 | Newton Co. (England) | 1920s | World War I | 45 Images | List at the end of the filmstrip |
| La Grande Guerre | Editions Nouvelles Pour L'Enseignement (France) | 1950s(?) | World War I, filmstrip for school | 40 Images | no text, subtitles |
| Debarquement allie en Normandie | Mundus - Cine at Home, Paris (France) | beginning 50s | 16mm French filmstrip | 30 Images | Subtitles, Gamma-Miliz |
| A Visual History of Leeds, part 2 | John Taylor's Teacher Centre (England) | 1978 | filmstrip on color reversal film, digital restauration | 39 Images | no text, no audio |
| German and European History after 1945 | |||||
| Trooping the Color with Princess Elisabeth | Film Stips (England) | ~ 1951 | 15 Images | Subtitles | |
| Bienevenue Mr. Speidel | DIAPO-Film, Frankreich (France)
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etwa 1955 | Anti-German filmstrip by the French communist party, Original owned by Jacques Labarre, Lyon. More Information: General Speidel, Zeichner Mitelberg, Europäische Armee
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59 Images | Subtitles |
| Profit durch Völkermord | Zentralverband der GST - Hauptabteilung: Patriotische Erziehung (GDR) | Beginning of 1970s | GDR-Propaganda by 'Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik' | 36 Images | Imagelist |
| Christen helft Wohnungen bauen | Calig (privately photographed filmstrip by Dr. Rudolf Ohlbaum), BRD | 1950 | Christian engagement for housing after WW II., reconstructed on the base of photographs, kindly provided by Isolde Ohlbaum | 50 Images | no Text |
| Nachrichten - April 1955 | Paris Match / ODF (France) | 1955 | Paris Match filmstrip Nr. 23 part 1 | 33 Images | French Subtitles |
| Nachrichten - November 1956 | Paris Match / ODF (France) | 1956 | Paris Match Bildband Nr. 38 mit Nachrichten, einer Reportage und einem geografischen Bericht, Teil 1 | 25 Images | French Subtitles |
| Nachrichten - Oktober 1957 | Paris Match / ODF (France) | Oct. 1957 | Paris Match filmstrip Nr. 47 part 1 | 24 Images | French subtitles |
| Achtung! Rot greift an! | Calig (FRG) | 1950s | Anti-Communist and Anti-Soviet Propaganda | 53 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| American History | |||||
| History of California - Transportation | Still Film Inc., Los Angeles (USA) | about 1925 | hand colored, US-American filmstrip | 24 Images | Subtitles |
| History of the California Missions | Still Film Inc., Los Angeles (USA) | 1926 | partly hand colored, US-American filmstrip | 30 Images | intertitles |
| The Pilgrim Fathers, Teil II | Still Film Inc. Los Angeles (USA) | 1920er | partly hand colored, US-American filmstrip | 31 Images | no Text, intertitles |
| The Westward Movement | Still Film Inc. Los Angeles (USA) | 1920s | hand colored, US-American filmstrip | 31 Images | no Text, intertitles |
| The American West (Cowboys + Tombstone) | Scottish Curriculum Development Service / BBC (GB) | 1981 | Color reversal film | 97 Images | no Text, no Audio |
| Slave Life (Images from "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 1927 | Still Film Inc. Los Angeles (USA) | after 1927 | hand colored, damaged, US-American filmstrip | 35 Images | no Text, intertitles |
| Challenge to American Education | The New York Times (USA) | Dec. 1958 | Challenge to American Education | 57 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Star Wars: Defense or Fantasy? (=SDI-Programm) | Random House / New York Times (USA) | 1985 | filmstrip on color reversal film | 90 Images | no text, no audio media |
| Non-European and Non-American History | |||||
| Das Japan der Gegenwart | Calig (FRG) | about 1950 | Japan today | 62 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Israel - Land der Hoffnung | Bildstelle des evangelischen Jungmännerwerkes (GDR) | end of 50s | Produced by Eichenkreuz-Bildkammer (FRG), acquired from a church in the GDR | 45 Images | Lecture (searchable pdf) |
| Soviet Russia | Still Film, Los Angeles (USA) | ~ 1925 | 15 Images | intertitles | |
| The Middle East - Continuing Turmoil | Random House (USA) | 1984 | Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, North Africa and American Politics | 90 Images | No text, audio missing |
