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.

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the S...

Documentary about Giger's work for the movie Alien (1979).

This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...

A group of artists settle in a swamp on the banks of the Indre River. Meanwhile, a voice describes a...

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...

Rare 1977 documentary short hosted by Christopher Lee on the occult. Topics range from witch covens,...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...

Fictional Documentary. A dancer in one of the paintings by Edgar Degas one day stepped out of the ca...

Redheads. Fire crotches… This film collects samples of their testimonials and their body hair and sk...

The Falklands War began on April 2, 1982, with the Argentine landing on the islands ordered by Leopo...

A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s...

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste di...

Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompani...

Repainting Cuba takes a critical look at communist Cuba, where both the facades and the aging regime...

A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. Thi...