Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame using the Pathécolor process, or other similar stencilling techniques. Bonsoir – La Fée aux fleurs (1906) / [Bloemenvelden Haarlem] (1909) / Les Chrysanthèmes (1907) / Le Chrysanthème, roi de l’automne (1914) / [Les Tulipes] (1907) / Les Fleurs dans les jardins (1914) / L’Après-midi d’une japonaise (1920) / The Beauty Thief ([1920]) / La Fée printemps (1906) / [Het schoonste uit de natuur] (1912?) / La Culture du dahlia (1911) / [Hollandse Tulpen en Klompen] (1920?) / Fabrication des fleurs artificielles (1911) / [Bonsoir tableau] (1906)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an i...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

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

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

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

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

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...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

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

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

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

A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either fa...