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 film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

In 2012, Stephen Vaughan and Kay Ferreter are invited to address the congregation at St. Joseph's Re...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they ga...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

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

A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...