Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

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

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

"Bagong Buhay" is a short experimental film that dispels the common belief that packing up and movin...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

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

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...
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...