While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.

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

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...
A tour of Istanbul in all its glory. All the sights, such as the Hagia Sophia, but also the small de...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photograph...
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the ch...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing ser...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmo...

A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel...

Alaska... Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discov...