Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing i...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose econom...
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particular...
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...
Early Balkan footage.
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning...