A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the skirt with her hands, lifting and twirling, sometimes exposing her bloomers and a dark garter on one leg. Her style combines ballet with the exuberant kicks and twirls of a burlesque dance hall. With churning waves behind her, the water seems to wash beneath her feet. The film of the dancer, "M'lle. Cathrina Bartho" (1899), is superimposed on that of the water, "Upper Rapids, from Bridge" (1896).

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

Swinging and twirling Dorothy Toy Fong the legendary tap dancer is still exciting at 99 years old. A...

Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years h...

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...

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

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

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

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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

Documentary about the dancer Sol Picó. From the dancer under the spotlight to her reality behind the...