Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realising her lifelong dream project: a sound version of her parents’ 1926 docu-fiction axiom, Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age.

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic c...

An exploration of the life of John Bogdanis, a father, teacher, friend and more who has always said ...

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals th...

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating ag...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, woul...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.
An epic documentary of rise and fall of Ustasha regime in Croatia.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...

Take a chilling tour through the twisted minds of some of the most violent serial killers including ...