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".

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

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...
Every now and then, we get a teacher who doesn't just connect with us -- they make us a better perso...

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

Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downt...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

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

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...

Motherhood is a short documentary film about a single mother trying to secure a future for her sever...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches ...

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

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

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and...

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don...
This is the face of someone the world assumes was stripped of her potential at the age of 18. But tr...

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

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

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