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.

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.
Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims aro...
A documentary short film showing the flying of an airplane by the famous French pilot Chevillard.

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the ch...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...

The film follows a group of three winter mountaineers and a pair of winter climbers on a typical day...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
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...

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

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

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

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...

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

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don...

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