The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train.
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...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...
The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, wa...
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...
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in w...
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...
From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag follows American F-15 Eagle pilot John Stratton as he trains with ...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
Take a technological thrill ride The Magic of Flight takes you on a technological thrill ride faster...
Ocean Oasis is a fascinating journey into the bountiful seas and pristine deserts of two remarkably ...