The Federal Film Archives, Berlin, are digitising the Deutsche Wocheschau newsreel collection of German newsreels from 1949 and making them freely available over the internet. Over 6,000 stories have been issued so far, for lowband (56K) or broadband (250K) connections, using Windows Media Player.. The latter requires registration. Each clips comes with ‘storyboard’ and background information, and searching is by freetext, or by topic, personality, date or location. There are English language and German language versions of the site, but catalogue descriptions are in German only. The commentaries on the newsreels are, of course, in German.