Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

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

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another ...

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

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...

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

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

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imag...

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he ...

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, c...

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