This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel a...
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Wood...
In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, t...
From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Bir...
This movie is a docudrama relating the early history of the Eiffel Tower: From the planning to its f...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact...
This legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of ...
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle o...
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moo...
The life and struggles of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph Maria of Habsburg-Lorraine (1832-1867), empero...
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during...
The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames ...
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Th...
Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.
A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lu...
The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, ...
A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo a...