Hjälp Till Polen
Year: 1946
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, swimming
Description: The film starts with scenes of reconstruction in Poland after WW2. It then shows: construction of hospital in Otwock by Swedish Polish Aid for children with TB; Swedish Red Cross assisting repatriation of Dutch citizens sent to Poland as slave workers during the war; activities at summer camp in Dzierzazno for orphans. The film ends with fundraising appeal for continued aid to Europe’s children.
Director: Bertil Ekeroth
Video Added: 25.09.2026

Cyklon
Year: 1965
Country: Sweden
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: A film report on the devastation which followed the cyclone and flood wave over areas of East Pakistan [Bangladesh] in May 1965. Families who have lost their homes and entire possessions are shown trying to rebuild their lives. A boat carrying Red Cross supplies brings relief to some of the victims. In addition to food and water from the East Pakistan Red Cross [now Bangladesh Red Crescent Society], gifts of clothing are distributed which have been donated by Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in other parts of the world.
Video Added: 04.09.2026

Röda Korset I U-Land
Year: 1967
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Compiled by the Swedish Red Cross from footage shot by delegates in Nigeria, Kenya, and East Pakistan [Bangladesh], this film report gives an insight into the varied day to day activities in the field in parts of the African continent and of the disaster relief action in East Pakistan following disastrous floods. (League Film Library Catalogue Supplement No. 1, 1969, p. 4)
Video Added: 01.09.2026

Hvis det nu var her
Year: 1976
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: The film tells the story of the work, especially the international aid operations, that the Danish Red Cross has been involved in. The film is partly in black and white with footage from World War II and the Vietnam War, and partly in color with footage from the ongoing famine in Africa.
Video Added: 11.08.2026

Aussiedler

SC 2.6/10 

Year: 1989
Country: West Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: With sensitive images, the film attempts to sensitize the viewer to the situation of emigrants in German transit camps and temporary homes. The problems of the young people become particularly clear: Identity, language, work.
Video Added: 10.07.2026

Alltag nach dem Krieg
Year: 1948
Country: West Germany
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: The documentary contains exclusively original footage by amateur filmmaker Elisabeth Wilms from the years 1945-1948 and shows (using examples from Dortmund) the living conditions in a city destroyed by the Second World War: living in bombed-out houses, in cellars and emergency shelters, completely inadequate supplies of food, fuel, clothing and general consumer goods, the consequences of the emergency situation for people's state of health, chaotic traffic conditions, self-help and support from foreign charitable organizations, clean-up and reconstruction work.
Video Added: 02.06.2026

Children's Sanatorium Solnechny
Date: 02.08.1979
Country: Soviet Union
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, sunbathing
Description: Children rest and receive treatment. Broadcast on August 2, 1979.
Video Added: 08.05.2026

Vinnitskiy oblasniy dityachiy kardiorevmatologichniy sanatoriy. 70 rokiv
Date: 13.12.2017
Country: Ukraine
Section: medicine
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check
Description: Vinnytsia Regional Children's Cardiorheumatological Sanatorium. 70 years. 13.12.2017
Video Added: 28.04.2026

Kroppen 8

SC 9.7/10 

Date: 07.04.1981
Country: Norway
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Medical series for children with Trond-Viggo Torgersen from 1981. Episode 8.
Video Added: 21.04.2026

Detskiy kardiologicheskiy sanatoriy
Year: 2020
Country: Russia
Section: reportage
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check
Description: Treatment of Children at a Cardiac Sanatorium.
Video Added: 20.03.2026