Film producers, television stations, the advertising industry, and website-operators - all of them will find what they are looking for in our extensive catalogue: Moving images from the archives of German television SWF, SDR and SWR (Suedwestrundfunk), with the latter being the result of a merger between the former two in 1998. You will find material from all genres, especially fiction (feature films/TV-movies, detective stories, series, comedy, film adaptations from literature, family entertainment etc.) and furthermore a vast selection of premium documentaries covering national and international topics. Being a member of First German television ARD, we have been providing high-quality broadcasts to TV viewers in the southwestern states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate for more than 50 years. SWR Media also offers a considerable stock of 16mm and 35mm material, as well as - in an increasing measure - HD (High Definition) format.
Add more impact to your project with footage from our archives. Primarily, we are specialists for everything in and around the German southwest, e.g.:
" States, countrysides and places such as Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, the Black Forrest, the river Rhine and the Lake Constance, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, the Neckar river, Mainz, Constance, Trier, and the river Moselle
Neighboring countries such as France (Alsace with Strasbourg and Colmar/Lorraine with Metz and Nancy), Switzerland (Basel and Zurich), Austria (Vorarlberg/Bregenz) as well as Luxemburg and Belgium.
Culture, history, and buildings
Culture and History, e.g. invention of printing, the Baden Revolution, carnival, the noble houses of Württemberg and Hohenzollern;
Buildings, amongst others monuments, historic places and modern architecture, lake dwellings of the Stone Age on the Lake Constance, the culture of Romans (cf. the Limes) and Celts, castles and palaces (Hohenzollern/Sigmaringen), Romance churches and cathedrals (Worms/ Mainz/Speyer/Freiburg), monasteries (Maulbronn);
o Museums (Museum Frieder Burda, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Vitra Design Museum, Fondation Beyeler, Gutenberg Museum, eleven State Museums in Baden-Württemberg and three in Rhineland-Palatinate, Mercedes-Benz Museum);
Music and Orchestra such as the five "sounding bodies" of SWR (Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, SWR Big Band, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart)... Furthermore TV-recordings of many well known pieces of classic music as well as of modernity (Riehm, Nono, Stockhausen, and Schönberg).
Sports and leisure, e.g. Nürburgring, football clubs (VFB Stuttgart, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Mainz 05, SC Karlsruhe, FC Freiburg), fencing (Tauberbischofsheim) and wrestling (Schifferstadt); leisure parks (Europapark Rust and Holiday Park Hassloch...
Industry and craft, e.g. Porsche, Daimler, BASF, Schott, Steiff, winegrowing...
Personalities such as Helmut Kohl, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Hesse, Hildegard von Bingen, Karl Marx, Johannes Gutenberg, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, Carl Benz, Martin Walser, Friedrich Schiller...
Outside the southwest of Germany, you ought to contact us if one of the following fields is concerned:
Regions from which SWR-correspondents report for German television (Latin America, South Africa, Egypt, Switzerland, Spain)
"Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer" or "Countries - People - Adventures" premium documentaries on culture and travelogue around the world
"Inseln" or "Islands" - documentaries on islands all over the world, in all their magnificent diversity
"Menschen und Straßen" or "People and Roads" - Portraits of roads, paths, and all sorts of other ways from all continents with cultural, political, historical, and social background/li>
Please contact us for usage in all media. We shall gladly discuss your requirements and supply you with a tailor-made offer.
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