Most Viewed From Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

Robotnicy - Nic o nas bez nas tells a story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events...

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

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...

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi...

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

All celebrities hurry in order to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Polish Film Chronicle. On this occasion, there’s a special episode of...

Documentary of the Kurylewicz Quintet rehearsing a jazz piece in a recording studio. After a few fits and starts the band finally hits its stride.

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

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the...

Documentary record of the first shift in Wujek coal mine in Silesia in 1962. We observe the course of events from the perspective of the mine's...

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England,...

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he...

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a...

Athletes of different disciplines warm up. They take on the challenge, sometimes give up, finally accept a defeat or a poor result. The camera...

A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in...

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.

A trip with a camera to East Africa. The aim is to discover its history, culture, religion and modern achievements. The ideological frame was the...

An impressionistic description of the camp experience of Xawery Dunikowski (1875-1964), sculptor, painter and educator, prisoner of the...