Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

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...

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

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beaut...

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

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

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

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...

A unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary w...