Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.

A film saga about the Horst family from the small town of Zakrzewo in Western Pomerania.

The protagonist of this documentary is Gdańsk and its history. The story begins on the shore of the Baltic Sea, in a Pomeranian town on the European Amber Road. It ends in the contemporary Gdańsk Shipyard.

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

The history of Warsaw's Bristol Hotel until 1981, when it underwent renovation.

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works.

Brief portrait of a conformist.

The process of building a ship at the shipyard named after the Paris Commune in Gdynia. The protagonist of the film is the ‘Aleksander Zawadzki’ ship. The work of the mind and hands of a man, but also a majestic piece of art.

On the 10th anniversary of Nowa Huta, documentary filmmakers go back to the beginnings of the town's construction and the conglomerate, using archival footage from the Polish Film Chronicle. The city is born to the rhythm of seven days of creation, and the jubilee is celebrated by children - its peers and former builders.

An interventionist documentary showing the phenomenon of widespread prostitution, maintained in the style characteristic of the "black series" of Polish documentaries of the mid-1950s. Staged shots at the Polonia café are juxtaposed with a documentary recording of arrests conducted by the police among Warsaw prostitutes and interrogations of the arrested.

A young music student strolls through Warsaw’s Old Town as the city’s everyday sounds—children, traffic, machinery, music, and passing jets—shift from background noise into a spontaneous outdoor concert.

A short documentary by Stanisław Bareja showing the beauty of Masurian Lakes.

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 metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management.

A TV musical featuring the appearances of famed actor Bogumił Kobiela and the most popular Polish musicians of the time.

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 the story of an average man destroyed in terrible times.

The filmmakers depict the hard-working life of 85-year-old peasant woman Anna Jachimiuk.

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.

A record of the three-day burial ceremony of Jan Piwnik "Ponury" (1912-1944), which took place in June 1988 in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. The funeral rituals consisted of Christian, Slavic and military customs.

In a small village in Kielce, a conflict over access to a water source takes on absurd proportions. The unexpected appearance of a source, instead of making life easier for the inhabitants, leads them to fierce and unnecessary disputes. It turns out that the production of Jaworski's film becomes a pretext to resolve the ongoing dispute.

The ‘Żywe kamienie’ (meaning living stones) from the title are architectural monuments that convey the history of past generations. In this respect, Kraków is a special city - it was not only the royal capital of Poland, but also a city of Jews.