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.
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

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

Murray Sinclair's acceptance speech for an award in honor of his role as chair of the Truth and Reco...

Chanda Chevannes follows scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber as she makes speeches against fracking and...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

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 ...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

In 2012, Stephen Vaughan and Kay Ferreter are invited to address the congregation at St. Joseph's Re...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

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...
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...
Farmers' wives from Amager selling flowers.
Street Trading. Fishermen's wives from Skovshoved sell their fish from the stalls at Gammel Strand. ...
From inside a tower, a man admires an artistic rendition of another tower.
The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a ma...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...