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.
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
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...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...
Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artis...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...