A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion La...

This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After se...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

This documentary chronicles the inspirational story of a man who would not accept "no" for an answer...

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...

From leaving Egypt 10 years ago, to almost dying a month ago in a car accident. This film is about t...

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when s...

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...
Short news featurette produced by Pathe-RKO after the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite...

An exodus of migrants settled in Tijuana and they hope to cross each day regardless of the consequen...

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children...
A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, ...
This last testimony of Robert Kramer (1939-1999) is a moving documentary with the independent Americ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pe...

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.