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).

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

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

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

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another ...
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Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.
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Journey across India, a breath taking land shaped by a myriad of cultures, customs and traditions. C...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

Scientists visit the remote surface and undersea locations to study various species of whales in the...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...

"Something to Call Our Own" is a compelling documentary that delves into the origins, obstacles, and...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

A debate about the presence of black culture in Brazilian contemporaneity, as well as the various pa...

In the interior of the Inhamuns, the driest and poorest piece of land in Ceará, the ghost town of Co...
A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with t...
Documentary about the leader of the fascist party in The Netherlands, from 1931 till 1945. This arch...