Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

David Korn-Brzoza

Vincent Lindon, Winston Churchill

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.

Turquie : nation impossible

Nicolas Glimois

Stefan Godin, Can Dündar

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

Zeppelin - Das fliegende Schiff

Peter von Carnap, Rüdiger Mörsdorf

Christian Wolff, Jürgen Jung

Documentary that narrates the birth of airships in Germany.

Leonardo da Vinci und die Flora-Büste

Margarete Kreuzer

Peter Garloff, Claudia Michelsen

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century. Von Bode, under pressure from the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, argued that the wax sculpture was created by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

The German Emperor Reviewing His Troops

Birt Acres

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Directed by Birt Acres.

Départ en gondole de Leurs Majestés

Vittorio Calcina

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and boarding two gondolas.

Wilhelm II. - Die letzten Tage des deutschen Kaiserreichs

Christoph Weinert

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Wilfried Rogasch

Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

Kaiser Wilhelm II. beim Besuche der Vulkan-Werft in Stettin am 4. Mai 1897

Oskar Messter

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."

Görlitz : revue devant Guillaume II et Nicolas II

Constant Girel

Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

The German infantry parades in front of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II.

Guillaume II et Nicolas II à cheval

Constant Girel

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Czar Nicholas II of Russia

Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, on horseback, parade in front of the cheering crowd, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

Arrivée en gondole des souverains d'Allemagne et d'Italie au palais royal de Venise

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Two gondolas, slowly approaching, dock along the wharf, and both Italian and German sovereigns disembark: Umberto I accompanied by Wilhelm II, and Margherita of Savoy accompanied by Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

III. Défilé de hussards devant Guillaume II

Constant Girel

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Several military companies parading, on foot, in front of Wilhelm II, in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).