The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in w...
The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, wa...
On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industri...
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkels...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into se...
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
British Steam Railway Disasters is the definitive DVD collection of newsreel reports covering no fe...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and reck...
On the 19th of November 2010, the Pike River mine exploded with 31 men trapped inside. In the immedi...
The largest man-made disaster of the 20th century, now largely lost to history. A journey through th...
Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmo...
A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...