[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like the fisheye lens has been a powerful tool for the subjective camera. Here it is at the start.

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

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

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...

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...
A tour of Istanbul in all its glory. All the sights, such as the Hagia Sophia, but also the small de...

A documentary about a 15-day river-rafting trip on the Colorado River aimed at highlighting water co...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

Straight Up: Helicopters in Action will take audiences on a series of aerial adventures. Fly along w...

A look at the great wolf debate with comments and views from people on both sides. It also contains ...

Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmo...

A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...

In 1902, Emery and Ellsworth Kolb opened a studio in the Grand Canyon and began making photographs o...

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images e...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...