Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely p...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, ...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled ...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artis...
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can s...
A brief portrait of famous and brave bullfighter Manuel Benítez el Corbobés; an account on still pho...
Set in the Edo period, the film deals with two brothers falling in love with the same girl. Sadly, ...