EFG1914 at Pordenone Silent Film Festival
2013-10-01 | During this year’s Pordenone Silent Film Festival, EFG1914 partners show highlights from their collections relared to the First World War. The presentation will take place on Wednesday,...
View ArticleIDFA 2013 – The First World War: The First War on Screen
2013-11-13 | This year’s edition of the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (20 November to 1 December 2013) will feature a series of documentary films about World War One. The...
View ArticleConference: “Unlocking Sources – The First World War online & Europeana”
2013-11-27 | On 30 and 31 January 2014, the two-day international conference “Unlocking sources. The First World War online & Europeana” will take place at the Berlin State Library, Berlin,...
View Article9th Orphan Film Symposium, Amsterdam, 30/03 – 02/04
From 30 March to 2 April, EYE Film Institute Netherlands is hosting the 9th edition of the Orphan Film Symposium. The event is organised in cooperation with NYU Cinema Studies and the University of...
View ArticleCelebrate Cinema at EYE – Premiere of “Mit Faedreland, Min Kaerlighed”
2014-03-07 | On Sunday, 30 March, EYE Film Institute Netherlands will organize a special day dedicated to international film preservation projects. The first session will focus on The European Film...
View ArticleConference “Rediscovering the war experience”, Paris, 3-4 April 2014
2014-03-07 | In cooperation with 8 European countries, the Europeana1914-1918 project has digitised and made available 400,000 newspapers, maps, trench journals, photographs, posters, manuscripts, song...
View ArticleWW1 Essay Contest
2014-03-07 |Classroom4.eu starts an Essay Contest for European students from the age of 16 to 19. Pupils across Europe are doing research on the history of their city in 1914 to tell the other...
View ArticleVirtual exhibition “European Film and the First World War”
2014-03-24 | On occasion of the current commemorations of World War One, the European Film Gateway is now presenting a virtual exhibition about the history of film during the war years. Users can view...
View ArticleWorld War One commemoration ceremony of the United Nations with film material...
2014-07-08 | With a ceremonial event, the United Nations will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War in the presence of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday, 8...
View ArticlePreviously unseen footage of the Eastland Disaster in Chicago uncovered
A phD candidate from the University of Illinois in Chicago has uncovered previously unseen footage of the Eastland Disaster in Chicago digitised within the EFG1914 project. The footage from the...
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