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Salme: Ancient Viking Burial Ships

Original title: Salme viikingid

2021 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Liis Lindmaa

The documentary series introduces a mystery that was found in 2008 near the Salme schoolhouse in Saaremaa. Who was buried there, who buried them and what happened 1300 years ago - scientists have been searching for answers to these questions for the last 13 years and are now ready to share their findings.

In the first part of the documentary series, we dive head first thousand years back and find out what the Viking Age was all about. The second episode of the series focuses on the excavations. What exactly was found and why is it so special? Plus, the archaeologists recall the emotions the spectacular find stirred in them. The third part of the series looks at how the Viking remains found in Saaremaa were studied and what the analyses revealed. Science is advancing every day, and from the bones it is possible to tell a great deal about a person who died ...
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Flesh and bone

Original title: Lihast ja luust

2013 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

The ancient burial mounds in Niklusmäe have been torn up by excavators, the bones are scattered around and the valuable things that were once buried with the bodies have been stolen.

The ancient burial mounds and a village graveyard dating back to the Middle Ages located near Kaagjärve Lake in Karula parish, Valga county, were plundered in the summer of 2012. The central area of the burial mound was completely torn up by the excavator and the bronze jewellery findings from the ground were collected with the metal detector. A crime has been commited. The ancient graveyard has been destroyed, bones are scattered around, and plenty of valuables have been stolen from the ground. The locals say that they know nothing about what has happened. Iidne ja püha Niklusmägi koondab ...
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The Otepää Gonne

Original title: Otepää püss

2008 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Archaeologist Jaak Mäll decides to reconstruct a firearm dating back to 14th century. He uses medieval skills and technology in doing that.

The fragments of the oldest firearm known from Estonia were found during the archaeological excavations of the Otepää castle in 1955 but identified as such only in the late 1980s. In this film the "handgonne" from Otepää is brought back to life by archaeologist Jaak Mäll - re-fabricated using mediaeval technologies and trial-shot with gunpowder made according the recipes from the early 15th century.
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His Majesty`s Warship

Original title of the film: Tema Majesteedi sõjalaev

2001 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

The film is dedicated to the sailors who fought in the Estonian War of Independence (start title). Actions of the British Royal Naval squadron in the Gulf of Finland in years of the Estonian War of Independence and story of perishing of the minesweeper sloop HMS Myrtle.

His Majesty´s Warship talks about The Estonian War of Independence and the activities of the British Royal Navy in the Gulf of Finland during the war years 1918-1919. The film uses the letters that a British sailor wrote home to his wife from battle. Russian historian Vitali Pirogov and British historian Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum in London give interviews from the forts and harbor of Kronstadt. Charman says: „We wanted to re-establish democratic rule in Russia. Thus, we also had to deal with Estonians who were fighting for their independence.“ This is fairly open confession, asi ...
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Tsaari sõjalaev

1997 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur
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Eesti Filmikroonika

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
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Arheoloogilised kaevamised Olustveres, Maidlas ja Jõelähtmes

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Where the Stones Grow

Original title: Kus kasvavad kivid

1983 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jüri Müür, Enn Säde
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Viljandi allveeklubi Triiton

1982 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Evald Vaher
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Ettevaatust - Hiiu madal

1981 | Documentary | Director: Vello Aruoja
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