Andhra Pradesh
Year: 1978
Country: Switzerland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Following the destruction caused by cyclones that ravaged regions in the south of India towards the end of 1977, this documentary focusses on the second phase of the international rescue operation co-ordinated by the League of Red Cross Societies [former name of the IFRC] in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry. The Indian Red Cross organized 170 camps for more than a million people who were made homeless. Distribution of blankets, milk powder, rice, medicine, and cooking instruments. The relief operation then concentrated on the reconstruction of more solid houses. Communal shelters could be used as educational and medical centres when not needed in emergencies.
Video Added: 13.01.2026

Samfundets yngste

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Year: 1954
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, swimming
Description: A film about day nurseries, kindergartens and after-school centres in Denmark.
Video Added: 09.01.2026

Mit rejt egy jelkép

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Year: 1983
Country: Hungary
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, medical check
Description: Composed of scenes shot in Bulgaria, Columbia, Ethiopia, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, and Zaire, the film (What’s in a Symbol?) explains, by means of the history, structure, and work of the Red Cross Movement, how the Movement's seven fundamental principles govern all Red Cross and Red Crescent activities.
Video Added: 06.01.2026

Uimakouluja 1962 Isossakyrössä
Year: 1962
Country: Finland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: Antti Haataja worked as a youth director in Isonkyrö from 1961 to 1965. During this time, Antti reformed the youth activities in Isonkyrö and at the same time brought new sports activities to the municipality.
Video Added: 02.01.2026

Le Visage de la Faim
Year: 1974
Country: Liberia, Burkina Faso
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: This film shows the relief aid provided to victims of drought in the Sahel. In response to an appeal from the League of Red Cross Societies, thousands of tons of food was shipped to Liberia and then on to Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) by plane. The League obtained protein-enriched flour from a company in Liberia. At Goroum-Goroum, 300 kilometres north of Ouagadougou, the Upper Volta Red Cross unloaded the relief supplies from the plane and distributed them to Touareg nomads.
Video Added: 30.12.2025

I torkans och Svältens spår
Year: 1972
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy
Description: Swedish Red Cross, "Drought in West Africa"
Video Added: 16.12.2025

Camp Hawthorne 1940 - 1949, (Volume 2)
Year: 1949
Country: USA
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The early years of Camp Hawthorne narrated by Sandy and Lorraine Sheldon. Music by Lorraine Sheldon. Lex Sheldon (Lorraine's husband and Sandy's (and Bill's) father) was director of Camp Hawthorne from 1950 to 1969 and a camper and counselor at the camp in the 1920's and 1930's. Lex attended Poly Prep where he was the captain of the football team and Dartmouth College.
Volume 2.
Video Added: 09.12.2025

Rolf und Susanne gehen ins Hallenbad

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Year: 1974
Country: West Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, swimming
Description: Rolf and Susanne visit an indoor swimming pool. They learn how to buy tickets at the ticket office, how to find and use the changing rooms and showers and how to behave correctly in the pools for swimmers and non-swimmers. Motivating animated film shots interrupt the real scenes.
Video Added: 05.12.2025

Femø 1971

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Year: 1974
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: The film consists of conversations among women on the first feminist camp. We receive a strong impression of their freshly gained curiosity and openness towards themselves and each other as they try to understand and analyse their lives as women. Through the film runs as an undercurrent that the aftermath of the camp will be new feminist relationships.
Video Added: 04.12.2025

Regenzeit in Afrika
Year: 1962
Country: Austria
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: Using the example of the West African dry savannah, the effects of the dry and rainy seasons on the landscape in general and the effects on humans and animals in particular are illustrated. On the one hand, parched land, suffering people and animals are highlighted as particularly striking consequences of the dry season; on the other hand, the positive and negative consequences of the rainy season: cultivation of fields and growth of vegetation, but also destroyed huts and roads.
Directed by Max Lersch.
Video Added: 02.12.2025