De lange hete zomer
Year: 1975
Country: Netherlands
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The long hot summer in Netherlands.
Video Added: 23.05.2025

Eto kasaetsya kazhdogo iz nas

SC 3.4/10 

Year: 1957
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The film talks about the importance of a healthy lifestyle, from the birth of a child to the very last years of an elderly person, about the influence of physical activity and bad habits on health, about the role of sports in the formation and education of a healthy society.
Video Added: 16.05.2025

Amyu. L'armée des hommes-guêpes

SC 8.6/10 

Year: 2010
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: In the depths of the Amazon forest, Beptoy and Baka are two young Kayapo aged 20. It is time for them to become strong and brave men. Urged by their elders, they will have to undergo a terrible initiatory ordeal by attacking the nest of Amyu, the most dangerous wasp , called "the killer wasp".
Video Added: 06.05.2025

Svømmeundervisning, Feriekolonien Nordstrand ca. 1950
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The colony Nordstrand is located on the Kattegat between Rørvig and Nykøbing Sjælland. In the early 1900s, the Frederiksberg Municipal Teachers' Association began sending children to the countryside, and in 1905 the municipal teachers' association established the first holiday colony. The children were to have fresh sea air, sun and plenty of food. Boys and girls were sent to the colony separately. The holiday colonies were a reflection of the 1900s' growing focus on children's health and well-being. Frederiksberg Municipality still sends children to Nordstrand every year.
Video Added: 29.04.2025

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Artek pioneer camp 1950
Year: 1950
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: Views of the Black Sea, Ayu-Dag, Gurzuf, pioneer camp "Artek". Celebrations dedicated to the 25th anniversary of "Artek". Present V. M. Molotov.
Video Added: 11.04.2025

Rio Breaks

SC 2.8/10 

Year: 2009
Country: USA
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: RIO BREAKS follows the story of two best friends, Fabio and Naama, as they navigate their way between the pitfalls of life in the slums and the joys of surfing on their favorite beach.
Video Added: 08.04.2025

Simdynor av säv
Year: 1946
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Nordic Museum's cultural history films no. 121. Recorded by the Nordic Museum in Norra Rörum parish, Skåne in 1946. Direction and photography: Albert Eskeröd.
Video Added: 04.04.2025

Shelter ship named after prince Alexei
Year: 1911
Country: Russia
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The pupils pack the ship's equipment, march along the deck, and perform exercises with rifles. The boys nibble on sunflower seeds; wash themselves in the shower. The boys dive from the side of the ship into the sea. A group of pupils eat lunch sitting on the deck. The boys wash themselves in the shower on the deck; pack the gear.
Video Added: 02.04.2025

Halsingborg, staden kring Karnan
Year: 1950
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: A portrait of Sweden's fifth city, the pearl of the Strait, in a time when faith in the future was proud and certain of victory.
Video Added: 25.03.2025

Reykjavík vorra daga, seinni hluti

SC 9.3/10 

Year: 1946
Country: Iceland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: The second part of Reykjavík in Our Days by Óskar Gíslason is quite long and overall less elaborate than the first part. However, it contains a wealth of beautiful and interesting videos from the capital in the mid-20th century.
Video Added: 18.03.2025