George Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak. The film is presented in American Sign Language and has no sub- or intertitles.

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

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

A Deafblind fencer and author competes in all arenas just for the right to be seen.

In 1902, Emery and Ellsworth Kolb opened a studio in the Grand Canyon and began making photographs o...
A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with t...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...

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

In 2012, Stephen Vaughan and Kay Ferreter are invited to address the congregation at St. Joseph's Re...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an i...