Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men are at the oars. As the boat approaches land, it must make its way through rough waves and surging water.

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...

Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She ha...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...
Street Trading. Fishermen's wives from Skovshoved sell their fish from the stalls at Gammel Strand. ...
The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a ma...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing ser...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
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...
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photograph...
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the ch...

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