Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

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

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

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 speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.

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.

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 criminal Henrich Scharf.

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

This movie is about the visit of Clive Harris, the famous healer, to Warsaw. Incredible crowds gather before the entrance and Harris "heals" thousands of people by briefly touching them. Tireless on his stand, he fulfills his duty for 24 hours a day.

A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of gate 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Witnesses to the December events describe their experiences.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

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

Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life through ups and downs

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.

The story of a married couple, actress and director, who live in the bosom of nature, in a stream hut, and realize a story about their own lives, thoughts and fantasies. Working on a film is a naive attempt to search for meaning in life.

A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television.

Despite the fact that the film is a documentary, its lead character and his life story are fictitious, though very probable. It is one of the best examples of creative documentary film-making of Wojciech Wiszniewski.

A documentary depicting the Warsaw district of Powiśle where time has stopped. One of several films made by Kazimierz Karabasz included in the "black series" of Polish documentaries. Featuring a commentary typical for documentaries of the second half of the 1950s, it is distinguished by penetrating observation and lyricism.

One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s

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 Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical change in style and methods of ruling. Kieślowski shows the skepticism of workers and their attitude to party members. He also pictures conflicts inside the party (PZPR) and usual work in shipyard. The political criticism of this movie made it a target of censorship – it was suspended and cut against the will of director.