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A record of one day in the life of a chronically ill man. It begins and ends with a fragment from a poem by Horace, who recommends to appreciate every...

A former inmate of the Auschwitz concentration camp, accused of being a kapo, is serving a life sentence. From the monologue to the camera, we learn t...

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

A documentary impression from the capital of the Tatra Mountains. All the winter attractions of Zakopane rhythmically presented by the camera: sleigh...

The protagonist of the film is Stanisław Niedbalski, a legend of Polish cinematography, cinematographer of several dozen documentary films. Usually, h...

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.

At the end of the 1980s, high school students watch fragments of a congress of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers that took place in 1949. Duri...

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Se...

The photographs of a member of the Gestapo, with narration from the captions he left in his album. Film released in 1964.

One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s

Despite the fact that the film is a documentary, its lead character and his life story are fictitious, though very probable. It is one of the best exa...

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from...

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland wh...

Shortly before retiring, an old railway worker causes a serious accident which ultimately destroys his whole professional career.

A report from a student’s festival in Kraków. The history of this event dates back to the 15th century in Poland. Statues and knights at Wawel remain...

A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of the event was the solemn oath of the youth of the...

On the cusp of adulthood and in search of work qualifications and a better life, Franciszek Wróbel - a baker from a small village on the Czech border...