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.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
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....
A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution b...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can s...
Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artis...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely p...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled ...
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
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...