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.

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

It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebra...

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vit...
Street Trading. Fishermen's wives from Skovshoved sell their fish from the stalls at Gammel Strand. ...
From inside a tower, a man admires an artistic rendition of another tower.
The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a ma...
Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims aro...

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art...

Shot in Venezuela over a 30-year period, this documentary depicts the life and work of José Maria Ko...

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...