One of the first movies ever made.
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to...
Early Balkan footage.
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compil...
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particular...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pil...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...