Der Schlossgärtner

Park

September 2020 •Swedish

Scenes of people in motion. Some are working, others spend their leisure time. The sound of airplanes and subways reminds us of the city behind the piece of created nature.

Lagoa do Nado - A festa de um parque

June 2024 •Portuguese

Faire le Bois

September 2022 •French

From the open air theater in the Bois de Boulogne the sex workers Heden, Claudia and Samantha, tell about the woods which is their work place.

Enchanting Bournemouth

January 1961 •English

Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and offering a variety of transportation options.

André Le Nôtre, le jardinier de Louis XIV

December 2014 •French

André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engineer, landscaper and urban planner. He worked for Louis XIV from 1645 to 1700 and designed the gardens of Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte, Chantilly and Fontainebleau, as well as the Tuileries in Paris.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

May 2014 •English

To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.

Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

April 2011 •English

Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Severo

June 2023 •Portuguese

The Birds and the Beasts Were There

December 1944 •English

Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the visitors are caged and the simian inhabitants roam freely; and finally the Parrot Jungle.

Sherwood Park

December 2024 •English

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

Children playing with skipping rope

January 1896 •English

A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of the other children refuses and eventually runs away. Another child is fascinated by the camera and stares at it throughout, even when encouraged by one of the men to play. IN the background, traffic passes and pedestrians stroll past behind a railing on an upper level. The children wear sunhats, indicating the weather is very sunny.

Britain's Park Story

August 2010 •English

The British invented them for the world, and they have been described as 'the lungs of the city - historian Dan Cruickshank reveals the history of our public parks.

The Yorkshire Moors

August 1950 •English

A nature lover's paradise lays in wait for a mother and daughter enjoying a day's excursion on the North York Moors.

Au parc Lafontaine

January 1947 •English

This short documentary profiles the idyllic landscapes of Parc Lafontaine. Set to an original song, the film follows a mother who brings her son to the park, where he plays, swings, and watches the ducks and gondolas glide on the pond. As an adult, he wanders through the park with his sweetheart. The song closes sadly, for his sweetheart leaves him. The passing gondola seems to bear his love away forever, but the final scenes suggest a happy ending. - NFB

Un printemps de square

January 1981 •French

Ne è passata di acqua sotto i ponti. La Sarca raccontata dai suoi ponti

December 2015 •Italian

Berlin: Hasenheide

October 2010 •German

Documentary about the social microcosm of Hasenheide, a 50 hectar green area in Berlin, located between Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In this park, you'll find old women with their dogs, young football players, Turks at the barbecue, as well as nudists. For the residents, Hasenheide is sports area, living room, pub and runway all at once. A refutation of the media panic surrounding the park as a place of drug dealing and violence.

Sunderland Roker Regatta and Festival August Bank Holiday

August 1926 •

Roll up, roll up, for all the fun of the fair as Sunderland celebrates the August bank holiday.

De onbegrijpelijke dood van Mitchel

Invalid date •English

Documentary about the suicide of Mitchel Winters.

Bussaco Park

April 1919 •Portuguese

Old recordings of the Bussaco Park in Portugal - founded in the collection of Norwegian film pioneer Hans Berge.