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.

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50 years ago the Volkswinkel - the People's Shop - opened for business in Rehoboth. The man behind t...

Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucas...

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Str...

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her stud...

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

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

In the Kalapalo cosmogony (an ethnic group that lives in the Xingú Indigenous Park), water is as old...

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...

A nature documentary about the predators in the Swedish winter mountains: the owl, the bear and man.

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A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded". A homage to Paulo Rocha and Kenji Mizoguchi, f...

As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleido...

It adroitly tells the story of a "counter culture" young man who when his grandfather dies, packs th...

Documentary on the interdependence of the world of the living and the dead, and 'the infernal influe...

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