The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

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

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short f...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...

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

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

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that...

There is romance in every corner we turn. In this sequel to the documentary, Old Places, Old Romance...
This short film documents Australian composer Richard Meale’s homage to the young French poet, Arthu...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

"Bagong Buhay" is a short experimental film that dispels the common belief that packing up and movin...
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

In this spectacular exploration you'll take a journey through the 4,000-year history of mankind's re...

Five female artisans from the Innu, Franco-Quebecois, and Zapotec peoples discuss their work. Their ...