Danish documentary following different locations and situations in Greenland anno 1914. It comes around settlements, hunters, steamboats, umiaks, a kayak race, and a football match. Photographed by W. Thalbitzer.
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
On August 3rd, 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the town docks ...
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the nor...
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Ediso...
This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Can...
One day in the lives of an average Greenlandic family, which happens to be of great importance for 8...
How Inuit peoples perform arts and crafts, on the island of Baffin Island on what is now the territo...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine spec...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...
The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...
In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Can...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...