A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflecti...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particular...
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
A documentary chronicling the Beatles' rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed "back t...
Early Balkan footage.
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compil...