Park

De onbegrijpelijke dood van Mitchel

Documentary about the suicide of Mitchel Winters.

Bussaco Park

1919

Old recordings of the Bussaco Park in Portugal - founded in the collection of Norwegian film pioneer Hans Berge.

The Yorkshire Moors

1950

A nature lover's paradise lays in wait for a mother and daughter enjoying a day's excursion on the North York Moors.

Lagoa do Nado - A festa de um parque

2024

No synopsis available.

Der Schlossgärtner

The award-winning short documentary portrays the tenacious Mosigkau castle gardener who has been persistently fighting bureaucracy and lack of money for 30 years to preserve a UNESCO castle park.

André Le Nôtre, le jardinier de Louis XIV

2014

André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engineer, landscaper and urban planner. He worked for Louis XIV from 1645 to 1700 and designed the gardens of Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte, Chantilly and Fontainebleau, as well as the Tuileries in Paris.

Scaredy, the Cat

2017

A documentary about a very shy feral cat adopted by people at the public tennis courts in NYC's Riverside Park and how she came to trust a very few of them.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

2014

To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.

Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

2011

Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.

The Birds and the Beasts Were There

1944 · ★ 10

Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the visitors are caged and the simian inhabitants roam freely; and finally the Parrot Jungle.

Berlin: Hasenheide

2010

Documentary about the social microcosm of Hasenheide, a 50 hectar green area in Berlin, located between Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In this park, you'll find old women with their dogs, young football players, Turks at the barbecue, as well as nudists. For the residents, Hasenheide is sports area, living room, pub and runway all at once. A refutation of the media panic surrounding the park as a place of drug dealing and violence.

Enchanting Bournemouth

1961

Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and offering a variety of transportation options.