A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by on rails; cranes lift machinery; and men perform their various duties, including hammering objects. (Library of Congress)
This portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
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...
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...
From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...
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...
From polar bears in the arctic tundra to black bears in the Northern Rockies, you'll see some of the...
Explore the extraordinary hidden world of insects, where a leaf weighs more than a car, rain drops f...
The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katr...
A documentary about a 15-day river-rafting trip on the Colorado River aimed at highlighting water co...
A look at the great wolf debate with comments and views from people on both sides. It also contains ...
Coral Reef Adventure follows the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers H...
Sea life in a whole new way. Deep Sea 3D, an underwater adventure from the filmmakers behind the suc...
Retrace the groundbreaking footsteps of Charles Darwin with a young scientist as she explores the bi...