Most movie fans know that the first filmmakers liked to shoot trains entering stations. This example by Sussex film pioneer George Albert Smith illustrates why. The train's rush towards the audience brings movement and visual drama. The flurry of human activity offers plenty for the audience to engage with - who are these people and where are they going? And the time pressure exerted by the fact that the train must soon depart adds narrative tension - will everyone get on and off in time?

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passen...

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

Witnesses discuss the Ascq massacre by the Waffen-SS during the Second World War 80 years later.

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in t...

No matter what your age you'll love watching this impressive and comprehensive story of the developm...
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...
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations...

The first Chinese film ever made, a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...