Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70 years, 800 rolls of nitrate film sat in sealed barrels in the basement of a shop in Blackburn. Miraculously rediscovered by Nigel Garth Gregory and later restored by the BFI, this now ranks as one of the most exciting film discoveries of recent times. Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland is a unique and vivid record of Ireland at the start of the twentieth century. The collection contains 26 films made in Ireland between May 1901 and December 1902. Much of this material was unseen for over 100 years. The films include street scenes of Dublin, Wexford and Belfast; the Cork International Exhibition, scenic routes from Cork to Blarney Castle and more. They are accompanied by piano and fiddle music and commentary read by Fiona Shaw.
Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
A historical drama depicting the Finnish struggle against Tsarist Russia. Opens at the Winter Palac...
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...
For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the pillars of the USSR, an object of both fear and admiration...
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...
Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the M...
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, ...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthqu...
Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under ...
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...