Iván Ávila Dueñas uses domestic found footage material. We observe a mineral engineer, a priest and a constructor filming their personal life in Zacatecas, Mexico between 1930 ad 1950.

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

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

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.

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

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another ...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

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

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...