Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of caimans, jaguars and tropical flora with footage of Indigenous rituals--including some of the earliest known moving images of the Indigenous Witoto people--and longer sequences showcasing the region’s extractive industries: rubber, the Brazil nut, timber, fishing, even the egret feathers that were a staple of women’s fashion at the time.
A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.
A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the local...
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He ...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs hal...
A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large ...
On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine wit...
The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two wei...
Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, sev...
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janak...
Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to...
Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to ...
Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vit...
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...
Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
In 1961 Turin celebrated the centenary of the Italian unity with a large exposition which lasted fro...
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pil...