A film in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of tasks, from aiming a pistol to performing gymnastics. Kobelkoff was born without arms and legs but persevered, becoming an international star in the early 20th century as a "Human Torso".

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...
This is the face of someone the world assumes was stripped of her potential at the age of 18. But tr...

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 story of individuals from all walks of life that have faced incredible obstacles, found the driv...
Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, a...
A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, w...

Tornado Alley documents two unprecedented missions seeking to encounter one of Earth’s most awe-insp...

From polar bears in the arctic tundra to black bears in the Northern Rockies, you'll see some of the...

Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downt...

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

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

From the banks of the Bahamas to the seas of Argentina, we go underwater to meet dolphins. Two scien...

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless per...

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beaut...

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...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinemat...