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.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up na...
Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.
Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by...
In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditiona...
These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Of Maine’s more than 5000 commercial lobstermen only 4% are female. The Captain celebrates that fear...
Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently un...
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
The mute documentary-experimental film "Ten Minutes of Silence" is a film expression of the trends e...
This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...
The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine at...
Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...
Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Before leaving for Rome with his mother, five year old Natan is taken by his father, Jorge, on an e...