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...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, ...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
A brief portrait of famous and brave bullfighter Manuel Benítez el Corbobés; an account on still pho...
This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
At the beginning of Sumadijska street in the vicinity of Slavija Square on the 11th August 1913, the...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...